From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 4 14: 1:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk-systems.com (hawk-systems.com [161.58.152.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E510637B411 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:01:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from WS1 (ws1.nexusinternetsolutions.net [204.50.158.15]) by hawk-systems.com (8.11.6) id f84L1Gv55159; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:01:19 -0600 (MDT) From: dave@hawk-systems.com (Dave) To: "Todd Reed" , Subject: RE: DUMPing entire File System Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:59:01 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal 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 do a df -k to view your partitions and mount points... you have /, /usr, /var, /whateverelse... from my understanding (and I'll be the first to admit I have never really looked too deeply into this) is that dump dumps partitions... ie your dump command is dumping the root filesystem ( / ) if you want to dump the entire usr file system you would need to dump /usr and so forth. Currently this is the way that we run our dumps... (or should that read "take a dump") dump -3u -a -f /backup/root / dump -3u -a -f /backup/var /var Dave >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Todd Reed >Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 4:18 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 > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message