From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Jun 24 09:55:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA04873 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:55:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.COM [165.90.143.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA04866 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:55:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb (cedb.DPCSYS.COM [165.90.143.3]) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.6.10/DPC-1.0) with SMTP id JAA05987; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:49:29 -0700 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:49:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow X-Sender: dan@cedb To: Gilles Tschopp cc: scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How to use Syquest EZ-135 as backup drive ? In-Reply-To: <9606241422.AA13570@aletsch.esis.vsnet.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, Gilles Tschopp wrote: > > The EZ-135 is affected ad "sd1a" device. My goal is to make a comprehensive > backup of my FreeBSD system, and the TAR command is too obscure for me, > until I'll get the expecting book. But it is better to doing the backup > process now ... So I would like to get a good and _safe_ method to backup > the whole FreeBSD to my EZ-135. If you have only a root file system mount /dev/sd1a /mnt find / -d -x | cpio -pdmv /mnt umount /mnt The -x option to find prevents it from recursively copying /mnt If you have both root and /usr (or any other filesystems), perform additional find/cpio's on them after cpio'ing root and before umounting /mnt :) find /usr -d -x | cpio -pdmv /mnt/usr Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82