> > For your systems that are running well, get an external harddisk that is at > least as big as the one in the machine. On my website I have explained how to > prepare this disk in somewhat greater detail: > http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/index.html#usb > > Then use the dump(8) command to make > backups of the internal harddisk partitions and write them to the external > harddisk. Say that you have mounted the external harddisk at /mnt/backups. The > following command makes a backup of the entire root partition, and compresses > it to save space: > > dump -0 -a -C 8 -L -u -f - / |gzip -1 >/mnt/backups/root-20090813.gz >
How about 7zip instead of gzip? does better compression, from what I learned.... ??? _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
