From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 22:27:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 725AD16A4CE for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 22:27:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A119743D95 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 22:27:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) j4AMR6VN017452 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 00:27:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4B645637A; Wed, 11 May 2005 00:27:06 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 00:27:06 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050510222706.GB4187@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <6.2.1.2.0.20050510164801.02765818@mail.digitalbluesky.net> <200505102128.j4ALS4Kj026796@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="l76fUT7nc3MelDdI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200505102128.j4ALS4Kj026796@clunix.cl.msu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! Organization: Me, organized? X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Subject: Re: proper use of dump to backup a 5.3 box X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 22:27:08 -0000 --l76fUT7nc3MelDdI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 05:28:04PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: >=20 > 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 --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --l76fUT7nc3MelDdI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCgTU6EnfvsMMhpyURAhi1AJ94Gj8JbOPv4Xw/e7aRN/W/HdcHxQCeLQU4 6trcbunYQ7kY11A9JZaYBeI= =xSx8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --l76fUT7nc3MelDdI--