From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 9 18:38:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C00106566B for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:38:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from nagual.nl (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.10.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B8668FC16 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:38:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from westmark (westmark.nagual.nl [192.168.11.22]) by nagual.nl (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/yanta) with ESMTP id m39IclBH017702 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:38:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:38:28 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080409203828.00003114@westmark> In-Reply-To: <20080409161645.GA96773@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20080409161645.GA96773@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Organization: de nagual X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-pc-solaris2.11) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 192.168.11.35 Subject: Re: Back up files... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:38:31 -0000 On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:16:45 +0200 Roland Smith wrote: > What I would recommend is to buy a large harddisk with a USB > connection and use that to store your backups. Make your backups with > the dump(8) command, and compress the dump using gzip(1). E.g. to > dump the root partition: > > dump -0 -a -C 8 -h 0 -L -u -f - / |gzip > >/where/to/put/root-0-20080409.gz OK. Right. And what is exactly the command for restore? Something like "gunzip dumpfile.gz | restore rf dumpfile" Or what. Compressing is nice but the use of gzip is always a bit confusing to me. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++