Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:38:28 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Back up files... Message-ID: <20080409203828.00003114@westmark> In-Reply-To: <20080409161645.GA96773@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <ee9dc2b40804082011o53d4fe88l99f7604711ff30e1@mail.gmail.com> <20080409161645.GA96773@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:16:45 +0200 Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > What I would recommend is to buy a large harddisk with a USB > connection and use that to store your backups. Make your backups with > the dump(8) command, and compress the dump using gzip(1). E.g. to > dump the root partition: > > dump -0 -a -C 8 -h 0 -L -u -f - / |gzip > >/where/to/put/root-0-20080409.gz OK. Right. And what is exactly the command for restore? Something like "gunzip dumpfile.gz | restore rf dumpfile" Or what. Compressing is nice but the use of gzip is always a bit confusing to me. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++
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