Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:26:23 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Christopher J.Utley" <christopher@utley.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backing up my system Message-ID: <4085795F.3060905@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <D63A2D20-92F3-11D8-98CA-000393A3705C@utley.com> References: <D63A2D20-92F3-11D8-98CA-000393A3705C@utley.com>
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Christopher J.Utley wrote: > I've just inherrited a FreeBSD system with an internal RAID setup. > There is about 100GB of system and application data. I am looking for a > way to back-up a snapshot of the entire filesystem so that I could > restore everything in the event the box were to blow up or something. I > would want to replicate the partitioning scheme, but not necessarily the > RAID configuration. > > I'm already backing up my application data nightly, but what I really > want is a weekly copy of the whole thing, so I wouldn't have to > reinstall the entire system and data in order to get up and running again. > > Any suggestions on how to do this most effectively would be appreciated. You can use dump/tar to back up the actual data. You can use disklabel and fdisk to dump the current partition scheme to a text file prior to backing up. Then, if you needed to restore/rebuild from scratch, you could boot a CD (such as FreeSBIE) partition the new disk based on the disklabel/ fdisk dumps you made prior, then use restore/tar to restore the actual data. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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