Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:09:34 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: alec@d2si.com (Alec Kloss) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup questions? Message-ID: <199702191809.LAA04447@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <199702190227.UAA05742@d2si.com> from "Alec Kloss" at Feb 18, 97 08:27:24 pm
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Somebody recently asked:
> 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.
Sure, just use the raw disk device for output, i.e.
tar cvzf / /dev/rwd1c (I think you need to use the "c" slice).
It should certainly be *fast*. ;^)
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