Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:30:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven J Corso <freebsd@netdtw.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Backing up a FreeBSD system Message-ID: <20041018102125.N30190-100000@maily.netdtw.com>
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I would like to utilize dump to back up my filesystems on a FreeBSD machine. I happen to be utilizing FreeBSD current at this time. I would like to do this from single user state on the system. I have made this work, and the restore as well to another disk drive, which is great. However, I would like to have the system check and see if I want this to happen at a specific time, and do the backup, and then return to multi-user state. I think I did this a long time ago under BSD/OS. I did it something like this: 1. Set a cron job to check for the existance of a file (like want.backup). 2. If no want.backup, do nothing 3. If want.backup, then "init 1", backups, reboot. There are a couple of things I can not figure out: 1. How do you get a FreeBSD system into sigle user state and start a shell without the prompt from init? 2. When the system goes into single user state how do you get it to execute a script? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Steve
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