Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 20:27:24 -0600 (CST) From: Alec Kloss <alec@d2si.com> To: burton@bsampley (Burton Sampley) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup questions? Message-ID: <199702190227.UAA05742@d2si.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970218154218.233B-100000@bsampley.vip.best.com> from Burton Sampley at "Feb 18, 97 04:02:05 pm"
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Burton Sampley is responsible for: > Greetings, > > I'm running 3.0-current with 2 EIDE hard drives. Is it possible to take > a snapshot of the entire first hard drive, compress it into 1 file and > store it in the 2nd hard drive? If so, what's the best way to do this? > I searched the freebsd archives but I could only find info for creating > tar or dump files to tape. > > The reason I'm doing this is, I want to periodically take a snapshot of > the entire system as a backup and store it on the 2nd drive which is > currently not being used. If for some reason I screw up another upgade > (like I did going from 2.2 -Beta --> 3.0 current) I want to restore the > primary drive from 2.1.5R CDROM with a minimum installation and then > take the most recent copy from the 2nd disk and umcompress it on top of > the minimal install on the 1st drive. Am I crazy (or stupid) for > attempting this? [snip] Hey, if you've got the extra disk, use it however you like. Both dump and tar should be able to do this. For your purposes I expect that dump is the better option. Lookup the f option in the man page for dump.
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