Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 00:27:06 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: proper use of dump to backup a 5.3 box Message-ID: <20050510222706.GB4187@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200505102128.j4ALS4Kj026796@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <6.2.1.2.0.20050510164801.02765818@mail.digitalbluesky.net> <200505102128.j4ALS4Kj026796@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 05:28:04PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
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> dump 0auf /mnt/usbdrive/dumps/rootdump.20050510 /
>=20
> might be what you want. That would get you a dump of the whole root
> filesystem. If you have another file system such as /usr then a second
> part like
>=20
> dump 0auf /mnt/usbdrive/dumps/usrdump.20050510 /usr
To save space, you can compress the dump with bzip2:
dump 0auf - /usr | bzip2 >/mnt/usbdrive/dumps/usrdump.20050510.bz2
Roland
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