From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Nov 10 16: 0: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE8E37B41D for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 16:00:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA49659; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 15:51:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 15:51:36 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Yvonne Shevnin Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dump to file In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Yvonne Shevnin wrote: > Hi: > > I want to dump my entire OS (apps, files, everything) to another file on the > same drive. > Maybe what you really want is tar? Both tar and dump have manual pages. There's also rsync (in ports). Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message