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Subject: Re: Backing up FREEBSD
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As with what he said. :)  Dump and Restore are your friends.

Also, in a crunch:

tar -z -c -f /path/to/your/backup.tar.gz /filesystem

Do that once for each mounted filesystem, and make sure backup.tar.gz 
lives on another system, perhaps on an nfs mount.

Chad Gross wrote:
> The handbook is your friend:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html 
> 
> 
> and most likely:
> 
> man dump
> 
> Chad
> 
> On 12/12/06, arun@dasmax.com <arun@dasmax.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> This is Arun from Singapore. I basically want to know how to back up
>> files if a computer is already running on FREEBSD. Please help me with
>> this as it is urgent.
>>
>> Thanking you
>> Arun
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