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From: "Kory Hamzeh" <kory@avatar.com>
To: "Todd Reed" <ex279@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: DUMPing entire File System
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 13:42:02 -0700
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I'm not sure if I understand what you are saying. With dump, you give a name
of a filesystem and it backs up all files within that FS. If you system
contains more than 1 file system, you must issue multiple dump commands, one
for each FS. If you want to backup all of the file systems on one tape, use
the tape device that begins with "n". This way the tape driver will not
rewind at tape after dump closes the tape device.

Kory


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Todd Reed
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 1:18 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: DUMPing entire File System
>
>
> I'm working on ways to backup my entire FreeBSD 4.3 system using
> dump.  I'm
> trying to do a full backup of the entire filesystem using:
>
> dump -0 -a -f /dev/nrsa0 -n -u /
>
> It's working, but not how I'm wanting it to.  If I use the same command
> except have it to backup the /mnt.  It backups all subfolders, files, etc
> within /mnt.  Why wouldn't this work with /?
>
> --Todd


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