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From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
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Subject: Re: Unknown Crashes
Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 09:22:07 -0500
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Morse, Richard E." <REMORSE@PARTNERS.ORG>
> To: "'Jack L. Stone'" <jackstone@sage-one.net>;
> <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:20 PM
> Subject: RE: Unknown Crashes
>
>
> > Jack L. Stone [mailto:jackstone@sage-one.net] wrote:
> > > For further safety, I'm configuring a backup server that will be kept
> > > current for redundancy so that I can just flip over the cable
> > > when I need to shut down the main server. BUT, haven't even had time
to
> > > do that yet because of this....
> > >
> > > I'm tarring to another drive HD-2 and don't have a tape to
> > > dump to. Tapes are good, but they are so sloooowwww. What's the best
way to
> > > use dump to the backup HD...??? I didn't think I could.
> >
> > Ummm... I don't have the man page in front of me now (I'm at a different
> > computer right now), but you can make dump write to stdout -- and then
> pipe that into a file, or right back into restore, to write it to a
different
> > disk.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Ricky

IIRC, the -f switch to dump allows the
dump to go to a file.  I'd definitely test
my memory against the manpages before
I tried it, though...

Kevin Kinsey



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