Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:22:23 -0400 From: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot sector f*ed Message-ID: <4A84921F.8000103@videotron.ca> In-Reply-To: <20090813214511.GA72324@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20090811173211.6FE4D106567B@hub.freebsd.org> <20090812193008.F19821@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <4A82A8D9.30406@videotron.ca> <20090812172704.GA27066@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4A831DF7.9090506@videotron.ca> <20090812232810.GA37833@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4A841AC2.1050809@videotron.ca> <20090813185726.GA66607@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4A847069.5050802@videotron.ca> <20090813214511.GA72324@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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> > For your systems that are running well, get an external harddisk that is at > least as big as the one in the machine. On my website I have explained how to > prepare this disk in somewhat greater detail: > http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/index.html#usb > > Then use the dump(8) command to make > backups of the internal harddisk partitions and write them to the external > harddisk. Say that you have mounted the external harddisk at /mnt/backups. The > following command makes a backup of the entire root partition, and compresses > it to save space: > > dump -0 -a -C 8 -L -u -f - / |gzip -1 >/mnt/backups/root-20090813.gz > How about 7zip instead of gzip? does better compression, from what I learned.... ???
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