From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 19 06:38:03 2010 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 AEED0106566B for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:38:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from root@mediamonks.net) Received: from mail.mediamonks.net (mail.mediamonks.net [217.195.117.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12B1D8FC19 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:38:02 +0000 (UTC) X-ExtFilter: Niversoft's DomainKeys Helper DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; d=mediamonks.net; s=mail; h=Subject:Date:Organization:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:Thread-Topic: Priority:Importance:X-MSMail-Priority:X-Priority:Sensitivity: Thread-Index:From:To:X-MAPI-Message-Class:X-MAPI-LastModified: X-Mailer:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=TF/QIgKh9o/m0kFQ2F1eJffLh2lZUZfwyclBT57PmgMbZ9HFtFhQmBhZuqeHuKm92F ndnBGNc1Nd2rhl0S4R1rFSnaYY0Ahd2DqvZTTXPGwtjOOMr2mAfq6N4JY6pyKqZznC3U 78AXN6xPEaw3OZgu9OVh7zpKsIp3s02N0TpvI= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mediamonks.net; s=mail; l=9100; t=1271659081; x=1272263881; q=dns/txt; h=Subject:Date:Organization:Message-Id:In-Reply-To: Thread-Topic:Priority:Importance:X-MSMail-Priority:X-Priority: Sensitivity:Thread-Index:From:To:X-MAPI-Message-Class: X-MAPI-LastModified:X-Mailer:MIME-Version:Content-Type; bh=GD4t1 FJVuhdS3DGBHRlGinQOMsRmFDWLk6FuMM7dtpE=; b=KjLMb7I3LBigXEgl3krID 6DyOIIdaJMKlwL8DoncLl8zIUieGXBLODEGJH8wC9slNlrmXDV/rDRdVqq81s4VN zDGrF/6S6RzsMOmMrBEmKSBK9ZFI9AYxnAKvY3FlF9sYOHL7Cnci+lOtorSAoTi7 1E6dpd8lKOAUWeckVYBwuY= X-AntiVirus-Sophos: Scanned and found clean X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse reports about this email to abuse@mediamonks.net Received: from [145.99.190.150] (account terrence@mediamonks.com) by mail.mediamonks.net (CommuniGate Pro IMAP 5.3.3) with XMIT id 5457222; Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:38:01 +0200 Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:38:01 +0200 Organization: MediaMonks B.V. Message-Id: <8f8f18d80968c14d8a0a5b06518c1dc6@mediamonks.com> In-Reply-To: <4BCB07C0.8010305@sbcglobal.net> Thread-Topic: Backing up freebsd to 1 file? Priority: Normal Importance: normal X-MSMail-Priority: normal X-Priority: 3 Sensitivity: Normal Thread-Index: AcrfitsimSC8s+vCRSenO+fSmqLlpg== From: "Terrence Koeman" To: "J.D. Bronson" , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-MAPI-Message-Class: IPM.Note.SMIME.MultipartSigned X-MAPI-LastModified: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:38:01 +0200 X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro MAPI Connector 1.52.53.1/1.53.3.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=SHA1; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_027B_01CADF9B.9ED16B50" Cc: Subject: RE: Backing up freebsd to 1 file? 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: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:38:03 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_027B_01CADF9B.9ED16B50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of J.D. Bronson > Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 3:23 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Backing up freebsd to 1 file? > > I have a freebsd 8.0 install and was wondering if it is possible to tar > up the entire install...for backup purposes. > > # cd / > # tar -cvf backup.tar {list of directories} > > then I can ftp the tar file out to another machine. > > This works in theory, but if I need to do a restore tar complains > on 'tar -xpf backup.tar'. > > Under OpenBSD, this works as expected. It has given me an easy way > to backup/move/restore or anything I want to do w/o complaining. > > I am running Freebsd on a machine that has no other drives/tapes or > anything so my options for backup are limited. > > All I am trying to do is get a complete image (or snapshot) of my > entire > install on this machine and then if I needed to reload or reinstall, I > could do a bare bones freebsd install, copy over the tar'd up file and > extract it from within / and then reboot an I would be go to go. > > Thoughts on this would be appreciated... > Perhaps http://ra.phid.ae/stuff/mm-backup-0.9.sh.txt has something that you like. -- Regards, T. Koeman, MTh/BSc/BPsy; Technical Monk MediaMonks B.V. 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