From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 8:20:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ECB337B43E for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 08:20:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Received: from oracle ([192.168.0.3]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA81878; Sat, 19 May 2001 01:18:50 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Message-ID: <12d401c0dfae$045903e0$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Nathan Vidican" , "Stephen Hovey" Cc: , References: <3B0536AA.1020409@wmptl.com> Subject: Re: simple back up method Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 01:19:16 +1000 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 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 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 want to backup the whole system in simple backup method and command > >> eg: Running tar command in root directory for whole system? tar zcvf > >> The following (courtesy of Crist Clark) are the simplest ones I've got. # dump -0af /path/to/dump/file /filesystem # dump -0af - /filesystem | ssh -f another-machine "cat > /path/to/dump/file" I'm still trying to figure how to use the Stephen Hovey method To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message