Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:02:05 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley <burton@bsampley> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Backup questions? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970218154218.233B-100000@bsampley.vip.best.com>
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Greetings, I'm running 3.0-current with 2 EIDE hard drives. Is it possible to take a snapshot of the entire first hard drive, compress it into 1 file and store it in the 2nd hard drive? If so, what's the best way to do this? I searched the freebsd archives but I could only find info for creating tar or dump files to tape. The reason I'm doing this is, I want to periodically take a snapshot of the entire system as a backup and store it on the 2nd drive which is currently not being used. If for some reason I screw up another upgade (like I did going from 2.2 -Beta --> 3.0 current) I want to restore the primary drive from 2.1.5R CDROM with a minimum installation and then take the most recent copy from the 2nd disk and umcompress it on top of the minimal install on the 1st drive. Am I crazy (or stupid) for attempting this? Has anybody done something similar to this? Here's the output from df -k for this system: bash$ df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 31775 16885 12348 58% / /dev/wd0s1f 1411583 943629 355028 73% /usr /dev/wd2s1e 2435758 1 2240897 0% /usr2 /dev/wd0s1e 63567 2478 56004 4% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc bash$ Oh, BTW, this is a 100% Mickey$oft free system! Thanks in advance for your help. Burton Sampley
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