From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 12 11:51:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01224 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 11:51:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01219 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 11:51:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id UAA27405; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 20:45:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA13375; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 20:30:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas) Message-ID: <19980712203030.B12922@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 20:30:30 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Carroll Kong , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backing up a FreeBSD Box... References: <199807121404.HAA27603@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199807121404.HAA27603@hub.freebsd.org>; from Carroll Kong on Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 10:07:20AM -0500 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd dump all interesting filesystems, for example: / /var /usr /home In case of trouble you only need to boot the cdrom, create FreeBSD partition on a new harddrive (W)rite the partition table, then create filesystems and (W)rite this as well, so new filesystems are created. After that restore the backup'ed data onto each filesystem with restore -rf /dev/nrst0 It's one of the fastest methods for recovery .. More about backup... http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ Why dump is better than xyz: http://reality.sgi.com/zwicky_neu/testdump.doc.html -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message