From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 16: 9:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.lppi.com (relay.lppi.com [208.49.169.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D3537B7F0 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 16:09:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lew@lppi.com) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 16:09:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200008042309.QAA13977@relay.lppi.com> From: Lew payne To: Plamen Petkov Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: back up with dump|restore In-Reply-To: References: <200008042215.PAA13937@relay.lppi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver 1.23 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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' > > > > 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 What is your definition of "heavy?" This is a disk-to-disk backup. I suppose you could embellish it with other switches. If you do, please share your final configuration with us. I like to take no chances -- so I duplicate the drive whenever we do major updates to the data on them (not daily). --- Lew Payne Publishing, Inc. Dunn & Bradstreet listed 994 San Antonio Road DUNS # 055037852 Palo Alto, CA 94303 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message