From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 15:47: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from plamen.bgstore.com (bgstore.digsys.bg [193.68.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B67B37B7CD for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 15:46:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from plamendp@plamen.bgstore.com) Received: from localhost (plamendp@localhost) by plamen.bgstore.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA14318; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 01:44:41 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from plamendp@plamen.bgstore.com) Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 01:44:41 +0300 (EEST) From: Plamen Petkov To: Lew payne Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: back up with dump|restore In-Reply-To: <200008042215.PAA13937@relay.lppi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 :-) ----------------------------------- Plamen D. Petkov (ICQ 2214327 [pdp]) plamendp@bgstore.com First Bulgarian Internet Store http://auction.bgstore.com http://www.bgstore.com ----------------------------------- 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. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message