From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 17 2:19: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F8D37B401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 02:19:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.nucleus.com (mail1.nucleus.com [207.34.101.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22E843E6E for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 02:19:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grant.cooper@nucleus.com) Received: from donatev49iknkl (unverified [205.206.172.27]) by mail.nucleus.com (Vircom SMTPRS 1.4.232) with SMTP id for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 03:19:05 -0700 Message-ID: <003f01c28e23$6dce6e80$1baccecd@donatev49iknkl> From: "Grant" Cc: References: <20021117100754.B19871@fishballoon.dyndns.org> Subject: single user mode VS normal using Dump & restore Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 02:23:53 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have tested using dump in single user mode and normal mode for an online Web server. Both have worked great. But I am worried if I try to dump on a busy server that I will be more likely to have bad data or corrupted files. Therefore, I have decided to do this using the Fixit cd (cd II) and take the server off line for 20 min for a safe backup. And use the cron dumps for weekly backups. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message