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Date:      Sat, 5 Aug 2000 01:44:41 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Plamen Petkov <plamendp@plamen.bgstore.com>
To:        Lew payne <lew@lppi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: back up with dump|restore
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008050136280.14216-100000@plamen.bgstore.com>
In-Reply-To: <200008042215.PAA13937@relay.lppi.com>

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Hi,

But isn't it too haevy ? I mean, to 'pax' EVERYTHING every day ? My goal
is to  have more efficient 'backup', i.e. an incremental backup ? What
about '-u' option ('don't copy if older'') ? Or '-k' option ('don't
overwrite existing files') ? You know, I wonder, because you told me you
are using this command lines in your real life! Maybe I miss something :-)



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plamendp@bgstore.com
First Bulgarian Internet Store
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On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Lew payne wrote:

> >from one drive to the other, I do:
> 
> mount /dev/wd2a /mnt; cd / ; pax -rwX -pe . /mnt; umount /mnt
> mount /dev/wd2e /mnt; cd /var; pax -rwX -pe . /mnt; umount /mnt
> mount /dev/wd2f /mnt; cd /usr; pax -rwX -pe . /mnt; umount /mnt
> 
> If my primary drive should fail, all I have to do is reboot the
> machine using the alternate drive.  Uhh.. that's after editing
> fstab on the backup drive to point to the right controller, etc.
> But I could avoid even that, by not doing a /usr backup.
> 



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