Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:41:31 -0600 From: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@oss-solutions.com> To: Chad Gross <avatar4d@gmail.com> Cc: "arun@dasmax.com" <arun@dasmax.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backing up FREEBSD Message-ID: <457EBF9B.2090902@oss-solutions.com> In-Reply-To: <17489c7a0612120546x11996604k8c86a3a546067973@mail.gmail.com> References: <20061212063009.kctzgagozc8gokc8@www.dasmax.com> <17489c7a0612120546x11996604k8c86a3a546067973@mail.gmail.com>
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As with what he said. :) Dump and Restore are your friends. Also, in a crunch: tar -z -c -f /path/to/your/backup.tar.gz /filesystem Do that once for each mounted filesystem, and make sure backup.tar.gz lives on another system, perhaps on an nfs mount. Chad Gross wrote: > The handbook is your friend: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html > > > and most likely: > > man dump > > Chad > > On 12/12/06, arun@dasmax.com <arun@dasmax.com> wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> This is Arun from Singapore. I basically want to know how to back up >> files if a computer is already running on FREEBSD. Please help me with >> this as it is urgent. >> >> Thanking you >> Arun >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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