From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 25 14:32:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (unknown [209.198.197.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 527F014DEB for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:32:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obonilla@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu) Received: (from obonilla@localhost) by voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) id QAA48677; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:36:05 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from obonilla) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:36:05 -0600 (CST) From: Oscar Bonilla Message-Id: <199902252236.QAA48677@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, LKentane@mweb.com Subject: Re: Backup question (newbie) In-Reply-To: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F3181789704FB@za12nt02.mweb.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is there a way that I can backup my system to disks instead of tape since I > don't have a tape drive. > > I went to the FreeBSD Handbook and found no info there. > > Can somebody please point me to a site where I can get info on this matter? > > Thanks in advance > yes, read the man pages for dump(8) and restore(8). you can dump to a raw partition on a hard drive and then restore from it, or you can dump to a file on a filesystem and then restore from the file. regards, -oscar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message