Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:23:50 +0100 From: Roger Olofsson <raggen@passagen.se> To: Tony Shadwick <tshadwick@oss-solutions.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backing up FREEBSD Message-ID: <457EE5A6.3040102@passagen.se> In-Reply-To: <457EBF9B.2090902@oss-solutions.com> References: <20061212063009.kctzgagozc8gokc8@www.dasmax.com> <17489c7a0612120546x11996604k8c86a3a546067973@mail.gmail.com> <457EBF9B.2090902@oss-solutions.com>
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Hello, If you have a spare machine with the diskspace neeeded then you might want to consider rsync over ssh. Rsync can do incremental backups, which can be nice and timesaving. There's plenty to read about it if you Google for "Freebsd backing up rsync ssh ports". Tony Shadwick skrev: > 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >>> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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