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From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.net>
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Pietro Cerutti wrote:

> Hi folks,
> I need to backup my whole disk, re organize my partitions, and then
> restore the whole thing.
>
> The problem is that the only place where I can put the backup 
> is a samba mount.
>
> dd and dump won't work (they won't put the data on a directory).
>
> What else could I do?
There probably are some dozen possibilities, but you could try
 	/usr/ports/net/rsync

Regards,

Uli.

>
> Don't forget that I also need to backup the whole / and /var (which
> gives sometimes problems with some unreadable files)
>
> Thank you!
>
> -- 
> Pietro "Piter" Cerutti
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