From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 7 21:32:55 2003 Return-Path: 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 9E7AF16A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 21:32:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A8ED43F93 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2003 21:32:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from slave-mike@rv1.dynip.com) Received: from duron.rv1.dynip.com (c-66-177-119-177.se.client2.attbi.com[66.177.119.177]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20031108053253012007jlope>; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 05:32:53 +0000 Received: from rv1.dynip.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duron.rv1.dynip.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hA85WsoZ003845; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 00:32:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from slave-mike@rv1.dynip.com) Message-ID: <3FAC8006.3040408@rv1.dynip.com> Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 00:32:54 -0500 From: slave-mike User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: srenna@vdbmusic.com References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the -L in dump X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 05:32:55 -0000 It should. To test it after running the dump do a restore -i -f /mnt/backup_drive/ad0backup/main_backup11_03 srenna@vdbmusic.com wrote: > Was working my way through dump and was going over what the > -L switch is used for. I guess one would use this when you > are dumping a mounted file system correct? > > Here's what I've been trying to do, dump all of / without > dumping /tmp, /proc, /mnt, and /entropy. I've already > learned to use the nodump flag with some help from a list > member and now I want my dump to run correctly. > > My commandline is as follows: > > dump -0 -a -f /mnt/backup_drive/ad0backup/main_backup11_03 > -h 0 -L -u / > > Will a command like this dump the entire file system for > me for later restore should a complete meltdown happen? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"