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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:53:40 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: dump question
Message-ID:  <20030310155340.GA431@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030310154349.GA2718@lothlorien.nagual.st>
References:  <20030310154349.GA2718@lothlorien.nagual.st>

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In the last episode (Mar 10), dick hoogendijk said:
> Using dump to make a full level 0 backup of my system to another
> harddisk in case of a crash. If needed I want to restore the dumps
> and have a fully working system back.
> 
> Question: do I have to make the dumps *single* mode or can I just do
> it from a running system?

You can do it from a running system, but be aware that there is a
chance that files (or directories) modified during the backup will get
lost.  I usually kill all remote logins, inetd, cron, sendmail, and
anything else with a listening TCP socket before doing my backups.
 
-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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