From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 24 10:20:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from PHSEXCHICI2.Partners.org (phsexchici2.partners.org [170.223.254.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D86837B41D for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 10:20:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by phsexchici2.partners.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 24 May 2002 13:20:36 -0400 Message-ID: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1AC5@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> From: "Morse, Richard E." To: "'Jack L. Stone'" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Unknown Crashes Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 13:20:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jack L. Stone [mailto:jackstone@sage-one.net] wrote: > For further safety, I'm configuring a backup server that will be kept > current for redundancy so that I can just flip over the cable > when I need > to shut down the main server. BUT, haven't even had time to > do that yet > because of this.... > > I'm tarring to another drive HD-2 and don't have a tape to > dump to. Tapes > are good, but they are so sloooowwww. What's the best way to > use dump to > the backup HD...??? I didn't think I could. Ummm... I don't have the man page in front of me now (I'm at a different computer right now), but you can make dump write to stdout -- and then pipe that into a file, or right back into restore, to write it to a different disk. HTH, Ricky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message