On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:38:28PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:16:45 +0200 > Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What I would recommend is to buy a large harddisk with a USB > > connection and use that to store your backups. Make your backups with > > the dump(8) command, and compress the dump using gzip(1). E.g. to > > dump the root partition: > > > > dump -0 -a -C 8 -h 0 -L -u -f - / |gzip > > >/where/to/put/root-0-20080409.gz > > OK. Right. And what is exactly the command for restore? > Something like "gunzip dumpfile.gz | restore rf dumpfile"
Close. It's 'gunzip dumpfile.gz | restore -rf -' since you are restoring from standard input. If you just want to restore a couple of files instead of the whole thing, you should use '-i' instead of '-r'. But if you're using '-r', you should make a pristine filesystem with newfs first. Personally I use 'gzip -1' for compression because it's fast. Using bzip2 usually isn't worth it; backups will be a couple of percents smaller but take two to three times as long! The script that I use to make backups of all my UFS partitions can be found on my shell-scripts page under the name 'dodumps', in case anyone is interested: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/software/scripts.html Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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