From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 16:24:48 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 1955A37BA3D for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 16:24:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lew@lppi.com) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 16:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200008042324.QAA13995@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 > 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 > > > > 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 I suppose you could do the following: Once a week, do the above "full" backup. This ensures that old, deleted files are no longer present on the backup disk. On a daily basis, back up any changed files... pax -rwXvYZ /dev/source /mnt Regards, Lew Payne --- 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