Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:22:54 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Cc: pete@bowtie.nl (Peter Weijmarshausen), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using dd to make backup of disk? Message-ID: <199903101922.LAA57293@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199903101524.KAA01521@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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:# cd backupfs
:# dump -0af - origfs | restore -rf -
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:Any less 'instant?' And 'dump' is meant to handle live filesystems.
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:Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
Mmm... more like dump has been hacked to attempt to deal with live
filesystem. If the filesystem isn't mostly idle, there's a good
chance that dump will fail to properly dump it. And, in fact, that
has happened to me several times.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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