Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:19:49 -0500 From: Robert Beer <r-beer@onu.edu> To: Robert <robert@mhi-tx.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dump Message-ID: <l03102803b25d47fb4589@[140.228.15.35]> In-Reply-To: <3637903E.61F7@mhi-tx.com>
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At 4:44 PM -0500 10/28/1998, Robert wrote: >How would I backup (and restore) more than one filesystem on a single >tape using dump. >is this a good idea? possible? recommended? > >I have a 2gig hp dat drive and some small filesystems (freebsd >2.2.5+2.2.6) I have tried doing them one after the other which seems to >work exept when I try to restore.. it only sees the first system dumped. >(seems logical because I would have to move the the beginning of the >next dump to read the header info off of it) I am not sure how to do >this ... I have looked at wt..etc.. but none seem position me at the >next dump header record. > >any clues would be greatly appreciated.. This is an example (for a mail server) that I feed to a cron job: -=-=- script dump_all -=-=- #!/bin/sh # @(#)dump_all Dump all partitions CURTIME=`/bin/date` /bin/echo "Begining dump at $CURTIME." /sbin/dump 0auf /dev/nrst0 /var/mail /sbin/dump 0auf /dev/nrst0 /var /sbin/dump 0auf /dev/nrst0 / /sbin/dump 0auf /dev/nrst0 /usr /sbin/dump 0auf /dev/nrst0 /var/spool/mqueue /sbin/dump 0auf /dev/nrst0 /var/tmp /usr/bin/mt -f /dev/rst0 offline CURTIME=`/bin/date` /bin/echo "Ending dump at $CURTIME." -=-=- end script dump_all-=-=- The cron command is: dump_all 2>&1 | mail -s "Dump Log" root --- Bob Beer <r-beer@onu.edu> Ohio Northern University, Academic Computer Services, Ada, OH 45810 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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