From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 30 20:09:13 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C7416A473 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:09:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phatbuckett@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B25113C442 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:09:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phatbuckett@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so7533591waf.3 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:09:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=HrjkXjmu4lFm2NmKO3O2RPpbP3o5DG498ECaWg0D3jo=; b=ePSSqY+ftQu2AELwVyh0PkLAhWNsvGaMqUqEPWRqO6UuX87n5euLIEzqrxppYypqhlSlN+WD8TMijkOILAkSeqn+TbFwlxQ2TqMztyhJmbP9hzzdfkkIYa6zSD+t7Ldyz77ZG4CF7A5pEzfDt3CGB65KzQ/SN2HBWUWPXVdWrZ0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=p1rx8swemtap0fq7KmYxP6ujpesUUttPhp/sW1IT5jGcxAhff+iZFtOx1xqIyj/bGg3oFxLuGzuPrtt4gLKMKUZagjMXFgtwS2juy4+56fnUeUEoQ/+4qlW/2kstlbYKmw9TCScLipYolgMBGhcY0LbgLHvdDcAbpFiR7tGeXnM= Received: by 10.115.58.1 with SMTP id l1mr10274062wak.110.1199045351643; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:09:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.47.12 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:09:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <839aec700712301209i7fa4af45q48ccb02c266b38a4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:09:11 -0700 From: "Darren Spruell" To: robert@webtent.com In-Reply-To: <1199040464.7325.38.camel@columbus.webtent.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1199037275.7325.17.camel@columbus.webtent.org> <839aec700712301010i278cbefcsd2ccd24179468ce4@mail.gmail.com> <1199040464.7325.38.camel@columbus.webtent.org> Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Imaging to new system 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: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:09:13 -0000 On Dec 30, 2007 11:47 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Running dump(8) and restore(8) would allow you to back up and restore > > your system. > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dump > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=restore > > > > This is typically used with tape, although you can dump to disk as well. > > > > If your data/system is critical, you ought to already have some backup > > strategy you could restore the system from to your new RAID. If not, > > you might put one in place (RAID != backups). > > Yes, of course, we have data backup and can restore after reinstalling > everything, but I was looking for a complete system restore option. I'll > look into these docs, thanks. There is no tape system, so I guess the > only hope is if it can be dumped and restored from an NFS drive. From > looking at the docs, it does appear this is possible, as long as the > data in on a fs mounted by fstab? Can be data on a mounted fs or an umounted filesystem altogether: 'files-to-dump' is either a mountpoint of a filesystem or a list of files and directories on a single filesystem to be backed up as a subset of the filesystem. In the former case, either the path to a mounted filesystem or the device of an unmounted filesystem can be used. (dump(8)) DS