From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 22 19:44:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 4BA4516A415 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:44:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net) Received: from chylonia.3miasto.net (chylonia.3miasto.net [213.192.74.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 936B043D55 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:44:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net) Received: from chylonia.3miasto.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chylonia.3miasto.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k9MJiDYZ012292; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:44:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by chylonia.3miasto.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) with ESMTP id k9MJiD6R012289; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:44:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net) X-Authentication-Warning: chylonia.3miasto.net: wojtek owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:44:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar X-X-Sender: wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net To: Jim Stapleton In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20610221232m192b7d3di7b0ccefce22cd57f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20061022213937.K11854@chylonia.3miasto.net> References: <1b6a9c1b5cb2.1b5cb21b6a9c@reyrey.net> <80f4f2b20610221232m192b7d3di7b0ccefce22cd57f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backing up SOHO server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:44:21 -0000 > Hmm, not familiar with "dump" or "restore", but what I would suggest, i am. very good tools, maybe except restore slowly processes directory listings when >10 millions file are in backup. but restores fine anyway :) dump is always fast, -L is very useful things, but manual mksnap+dump may be more useful if more than one copy needs to be done. works directly (-a) with SCSI tapes and with DVD+RW drives (with /dev/acd*). i'm using it over a year in FreeBSD (and 3 years at all) and it works. i had to do full restore 2 times one because of disk crash, other time after doing rm -rf / instead of rm -rf /a (where a was temporary directory) because i missed just this a :) incremental dumps are most important to me, nothing else really works that way, while gtar is said to ;) use chflags nodump to flag /tmp/* and other dirs that are not important.