From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 30 14:25:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE0016A407 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:25:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcelo.maraboli@usm.cl) Received: from sith.usm.cl (sith.usm.cl [200.1.21.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 545CA43C9D for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:25:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcelo.maraboli@usm.cl) Received: from jedi.usm.cl (jedi.usm.cl [200.1.21.110]) by sith.usm.cl (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id kAUEPaSn043276; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:25:36 -0300 (CLST) (envelope-from marcelo.maraboli@usm.cl) Received: from [200.1.21.50] (pucon.dcsc.utfsm.cl [200.1.21.50]) (user=marcelo.maraboli mech=PLAIN bits=0) by jedi.usm.cl (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id kAUEPa1m021948 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:25:36 -0300 (CLST) (envelope-from marcelo.maraboli@usm.cl) Message-ID: <456EE9E2.7070606@usm.cl> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:25:38 -0300 From: Marcelo Maraboli User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rachel Florentine References: <20061130112939.12787.qmail@web57808.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20061130112939.12787.qmail@web57808.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: milter-spamc/0.25.321 (sith.usm.cl. [200.1.21.112]); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:25:37 -0300 X-Spam-Status: NO, hits=-4.50 required=3.00 X-Spam-Level: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88/2263/Thu Nov 30 03:51:08 2006 on sith.usm.cl X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Data Recovery X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:25:40 -0000 cp is not efficient for your need, use RSYNC. this way, the second time you "backup", you only copy newer files and donīt crash your box... ;) regards, Rachel Florentine wrote: > Hi; > Is there a data recovery utility anywhere available? Not one that loads into Windoze, but straight into FBSD. I tried the following command to back up my working HD to my new 1/2 teraflop HD: > > cp -R /* /ad2 > > and I managed to crash the system (recovered easily) and fry some important files on ad2. > TIA, > Rachel > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Music Unlimited > Access over 1 million songs. > http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Marcelo Maraboli Rosselott Jefe Area de Redes y Comunicaciones (Network & UNIX Systems Engineer) Ingeniero Civil Electronico, CISSP (Electronic Engineer, CISSP) Direccion Central de Servicios Computacionales (DCSC) Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria phone: +56 32 2654071 Chile. http://www.usm.cl http://elqui.dcsc.utfsm.cl