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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To: Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com>
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Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:12:56AM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote:

You can do all this though it might be more than needed.   Only
the level 0 dumps are needed.


> Thanks again guys.  My final series of steps to take full backups:
> 
> bsdlabel ad4s1                    | ssh -p 22222 nlandys@localhost dd
> of=/home/nlandys/backup/bsdlabel_ad4s1
> dmesg -a                          | ssh -p 22222 nlandys@localhost dd
> of=/home/nlandys/backup/dmesg
> dd if=/dev/ad4 bs=512 count=1     | ssh -p 22222 nlandys@localhost dd
> of=/home/nlandys/backup/MBR
> cat /etc/fstab                    | ssh -p 22222 nlandys@localhost dd
> of=/home/nlandys/backup/fstab
> dump -0Lan -f - / | gzip          | ssh -p 22222 nlandys@localhost dd
> of=/home/nlandys/backup/dump0-root.gz
> dump -0Lan -f - /tmp | gzip       | ssh -p 22222 nlandys@localhost dd
> of=/home/nlandys/backup/dump0-tmp.gz
> dump -0Lan -f - /var | gzip       | ssh -p 22222 nlandys@localhost dd
> of=/home/nlandys/backup/dump0-var.gz
> dump -0Lan -f - /usr | gzip       | ssh -p 22222 nlandys@localhost dd
> of=/home/nlandys/backup/dump0-usr.gz
> 
> ... where port 22222 on localhost is a pipe to my remote desktop with
> the 500 GB harddrive.  If I missed anything important please let me
> know.

Are you clear about what you have to run on the other machine
to receive the data and put it where you want?

////jerry