Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 22:12:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dumping file system subtree (/var) Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206172211450.2506@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <4FDD517E.3060206@dreamchaser.org> References: <4FD1098E.7020203@dreamchaser.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206161818070.41364@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4FDD517E.3060206@dreamchaser.org>
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>> alternatively - use tar. > > What I was trying to achieve, which I haven't done yet, was a smallish dump of the "core system". By that I mean system + ports, without distfiles, etc. Then a separate dump of user data, which is considerably larger. At this point I am thinking I should do this: > make clean distclean ports to remove temporary stuff > set /usr/home NODUMP > dump /, /var, and /usr > unset /usr/home NODUMP > dump /usr/home really - use tar. dump is not for that, but to QUICKLY dump a filesystem. on SSD - both are faster than writing to backup target disk.
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