be created by the time your system boots on.
Nice answer by Sergio, but I personally would use the j option with tar
to compress to bzip2;
3) tar --one-file-system -cvjf /mnt/backup.tbz ./ var usr home
Though I prefer personally to use dump/restore because:
- If you're on UFS, you don't have to single-user the system, just use
the L option (live filesystem)
- Restore has an awesome 'interactive' mode
- See Zwicky [1]
I'll send you my dump scripts if you're interested. It's dead easy to use!
Chris
[1] http://www.coredumps.de/doc/dump/zwicky/testdump.doc.html
.
I think Sergio has a nice script. I had been doing something similar but
I know I recall when untarring (restoring if you will) it was
complaining about not being able to do things. It was not sockets and
similar stuff that gets rebuilt on reboot. I do not have failures handy
to post (yet).
Truth be told? - I am running FreeBSD hosts within ESXi. I can backup
the hosts within ESXi but need to take the host offline and its a
cumbersome ordeal. If I had RAID on ESXi, I wouldn't be so worried per
se but this is not an option. ESXi is very fussy about what is supported
and I dont have the $ for SCSI and SCSI Raid.
Basically what I need to do is create a fully restorable backup for 2
reasons:
1. Easy to create another host on ESXi. I can setup/flavor my fbsd
install and then once thats done, setup another host.
2. Obvious backup reasons.
...right now, if the SATA drive fails that is hosting the fbsd install I
am dead in the water. I have 5 hosts on this machine spread across 4
SATA drives but nothing is mirrored or RAIDed in anyway.
I am at the mercy of these drives w/o any backup-
--
J.D. Bronson
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