From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 19 10:10:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA07871 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 10:10:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA07810 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 10:09:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id LAA04447; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:09:35 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199702191809.LAA04447@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Backup questions? To: alec@d2si.com (Alec Kloss) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:09:34 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199702190227.UAA05742@d2si.com> from "Alec Kloss" at Feb 18, 97 08:27:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Somebody recently asked: > I'm running 3.0-current with 2 EIDE hard drives. Is it possible to take > a snapshot of the entire first hard drive, compress it into 1 file and > store it in the 2nd hard drive? If so, what's the best way to do this? > I searched the freebsd archives but I could only find info for creating > tar or dump files to tape. Sure, just use the raw disk device for output, i.e. tar cvzf / /dev/rwd1c (I think you need to use the "c" slice). It should certainly be *fast*. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com