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Date:      Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:16:54 -0500
From:      "Scott Renna" <srenna@vdbmusic.com>
To:        "'Mike Maltese'" <mike@pcmedx.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Cc:        gihl@i-am-gil-agno-virtucio.ph
Subject:   RE: dumping the contents of a hard-drive
Message-ID:  <001001c39e9c$a758b040$0201a8c0@mars>
In-Reply-To: <002a01c39e9a$b464e850$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com>

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What would you guys say would be the best method of dumping a live file
system and excluding a certain group of directories(namely /tmp and
/mnt)?



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Mike Maltese
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:03 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Cc: gihl@i-am-gil-agno-virtucio.ph
Subject: Re: dumping the contents of a hard-drive

> Hi. I have a FreeBSD 5.1 box that has 2 hard drives. They are both 
> Seagate ST380011A (Capacity: 78.18 GB). Currently I am only utilizing 
> one hard drive and Iam planning to use the other one as a back-up. 
> 
> Which utility can I use to dump all the contents of the my first drive

> to the second drive?

dump perhaps? See the man pages for dump and restore.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.
html
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