From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 15:13: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 779E137B422 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 15:13:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 89804 invoked by uid 100); 16 May 2001 22:12:59 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15106.64363.167831.23729@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 17:12:59 -0500 To: stellayu@ca.inter.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple back up method In-Reply-To: <70209970@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG stellayu@ca.inter.net types: > I want to backup the whole system in simple backup method and command > eg: > > Running tar command in root directory for whole system? tar zcvf > > Could you suggest to me? I wouldn't trust your root directory - with all those interesting "device" files - to anything but dump. There's an entry in the FreeBSD FAQ - about moving things to a large disk - that discusses the different backup programs. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message