From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 10 11:23:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 686E015505 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:23:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA57293; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:22:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:22:54 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199903101922.LAA57293@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Crist J. Clark" Cc: pete@bowtie.nl (Peter Weijmarshausen), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using dd to make backup of disk? References: <199903101524.KAA01521@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :# cd backupfs :# dump -0af - origfs | restore -rf - : :Any less 'instant?' And 'dump' is meant to handle live filesystems. :-- :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message