From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 7:56:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.94.6.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE4F237B423 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 07:56:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA14802; Fri, 18 May 2001 10:58:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <3B0536AA.1020409@wmptl.com> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:50:18 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010131 Netscape6/6.01 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hovey Cc: stellayu@ca.inter.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: simple back up method References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Stephen Hovey wrote: > I would forget tar and cpio (I had restoration problems when using tape) - > the thing Ive found the most reliable that comes with freebsd is pax > > email if you want a sample backup and restore line. > > On Wed, 16 May 2001 stellayu@ca.inter.net wrote: > > >> I want to backup the whole system in simple backup method and command >> eg: >> >> Running tar command in root directory for whole system? tar zcvf >> >> Could you suggest to me? >> >> thanks, >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message man dump Or for a quick example: dump -0au / Which means: dump the filesystem mounted on /, automatically detect the tape size, and use a full (complete) backup (the 0) part. To do incremental backups after this initial level 0, just increase the dump level, full restore use the latest 0 level, and the latest incremental(s). Suggest though you man dump first. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://home.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message