From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 11 17:22:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CA5E37B71A for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:22:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com) Received: from rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com ([216.196.73.168]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:20:02 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f2C1M8w92217; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:22:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:22:03 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Doug Young Cc: Michael Conlen , Matthew Rudderham , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What Are Standard Procedures For System Backup Message-ID: <20010311172203.K50418@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <022501c0aa4d$a96a65e0$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <022501c0aa4d$a96a65e0$0200a8c0@apana.org.au>; from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:05:27AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:05:27AM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > In order to "dump" EVERYTHING on a hard drive to a file, what command needs > to be used ?? I looked at "man dump" & the handbook section on backup but > neither provides much help ... nothing of consequence in the mailing list > archives either. I am not sure what you can't find in the docs. # dump -0af /path/to/dump/file /filesystem Should dump eveything on the /filesystem to the file named. You can then move that file to wherever you want to keep it using whatever means you feel most comfortable. OTOH, if you want to pipe the file straight to another machine using, say, SSH, # dump -0af - /filesystem | ssh -f another-machine "cat > /path/to/dump/file" I am not sure what is missing from the docs. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message