Re: Backing up my system

2004-04-21 Thread anubis
You can use dump/tar to back up the actual data. You can use disklabel and fdisk to dump the current partition scheme to a text file prior to backing up. Then, if you needed to restore/rebuild from scratch, you could boot a CD (such as FreeSBIE) partition the new disk based on the

Backing up my system

2004-04-20 Thread Christopher J . Utley
I've just inherrited a FreeBSD system with an internal RAID setup. There is about 100GB of system and application data. I am looking for a way to back-up a snapshot of the entire filesystem so that I could restore everything in the event the box were to blow up or something. I would want to

Re: Backing up my system

2004-04-20 Thread Bill Moran
Christopher J.Utley wrote: I've just inherrited a FreeBSD system with an internal RAID setup. There is about 100GB of system and application data. I am looking for a way to back-up a snapshot of the entire filesystem so that I could restore everything in the event the box were to blow up or

Re: Backing up my system

2004-04-20 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Bill, - snip - You can use dump/tar to back up the actual data. I also apply 'tar' command to backup actual data keeping the directory tree simultaneously. Kindly advise what is 'dump/tar' B.R. Stephen - snip - Then, if you needed to restore/rebuild from scratch, you could boot a CD

Re: Backing up my system

2004-04-20 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Bill, - snip - You can use dump/tar to back up the actual data. I also apply 'tar' command to backup actual data keeping the directory tree simultaneously. Kindly advise what is 'dump/tar' B.R. Stephen I'm pretty sure he meant OR, as in you can use dump or tar

Re: Backing up my system

2004-04-20 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - You can use dump/tar to back up the actual data. I also apply 'tar' command to backup actual data keeping the directory tree simultaneously. Kindly advise what is 'dump/tar' I'm pretty sure he meant OR, as in you can use dump or tar for backup, and restore or tar for rebuilding

Re: Backing up my system

2004-04-20 Thread Mike Maltese
What will be 'dump vs tar' ?. Their pros and cons. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html Dump is preferable to tar for system backups. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list