From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 8:14:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tellurian.net (gate.tellurian.net [216.182.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B2037B721 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 08:14:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walt@betan.com) Received: from walt99 (unverified [216.182.56.86]) by tellurian.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.4) with ESMTP id for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 11:13:51 -0400 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010518110228.00c6d7d0@pop3.palace.net> X-Sender: walterbetanc@pop3.palace.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:07:19 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Walter Betancourt Subject: Re: simple back up method In-Reply-To: <3B0536AA.1020409@wmptl.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 Is it practical or possible, to have this method ftp or however, to send backup to remote system to have an update replacement available ? At 10:50 AM 5/18/01 -0400, you wrote: >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 Walter Betancourt walt@betan.com Phone: 973-579-4862 Fax: 973-383-7485 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message