From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 18 6:12: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CE8237B405 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 06:12:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sageone (ppp-208-191-234-45.dialup.crchtx.swbell.net [208.191.234.45]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA08459; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:11:41 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20010918081140.06b79c98@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:11:40 -0500 To: Christoph Sold From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: FS backup to Hard Disk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3BA74099.9040709@i-clue.de> References: <3.0.5.32.20010917211717.06b79c98@mail.sage-american.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks.... this is an experimental box and not a production server. We are testing this type of backup in addition to tapes.... On Win2K machines, a full backup/verify to hard disk will do 5GB in about 20 mins or less. The restore has been flawless & everything works. This is faster that tapes, but only intended to be in addition.... we use mirrors too. I have found that all kinds of backups can be made, but the question is: will they restore correctly... At 02:39 PM 9.18.2001 +0200, Christoph Sold wrote: >jacks@sage-american.com wrote: > >>I would like to do nitely cron backup everything for full restore to a >>second hard disk: >>/mnt/fat32/backupdir >> >>I gather I need to use "tar" to do this, but not exactly sure of the >>precise command and switches. Don't want to mess up on this. Here's my fstab: >> >>Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >>/dev/ad0s2a 99183 29641 61608 32% / >>/dev/ad0s2f 8835083 673328 7454949 8% /usr >>/dev/ad0s2e 19815 2317 15913 13% /var >>procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc >>/dev/ad1s1 13264736 3086024 10178712 23% /mnt/fat32 >> >>Guidance on exact tar line command would be appreciated.... thanks in >>advance. >> >Well, man tar should give you plenty of help. A short version would be > >tar clf /mnt/fat32/root.tar / >tar clf /mnt/fat32/usr.tar /usr >tar clf /mnt/fat32/var.tar /var > >which does a basic backiup of all your partitions, given the backup user >has read access to all files to be backed up. > >OTOH, a backup within the very same box is no backup. Read on at >www.backupcentral.com for reasonable backup strategies. > >HTH >-Christoph Sold > > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message