Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:52:09 +0800 (CST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Stephen=20Liu?= <satimis@yahoo.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backing up my system Message-ID: <20040421015209.32346.qmail@web40301.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi Bill, - snip - > You can use dump/tar to back up the actual data. I also apply 'tar' command to backup actual data keeping the directory tree simultaneously. Kindly advise what is 'dump/tar' B.R. Stephen - snip - > Then, if you needed to restore/rebuild from scratch, you could boot a > CD (such as FreeSBIE) partition the new disk based on the disklabel/ > fdisk dumps you made prior, then use restore/tar to restore the > actual data. _______________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk
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