Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:32:03 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Need to Backup Using Dump Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110230929230.50288@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <1319375054.79311.YahooMailNeo@web36507.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <000001cc90c0$a0c16050$e24420f0$@org> <4EA2CE72.5030202@cran.org.uk> <20111022161242.11803f76.freebsd@edvax.de> <4EA31702.7080406@locolomo.org> <1319375054.79311.YahooMailNeo@web36507.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Bill Tillman wrote: > I have two FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE servers running NFS. I have tons of files on Server A that I want to backup to a big drive on Sever B. Server B nfs_mounts one of the filesystems on Server A to /mnt. So if I wanted to make a backup of the filesytem on Server A to Server B I tried: > > dump -d /home/my_home/backups/20111024 /mnt > > but each time I try this it tells me that filesystem /mnt is unknown. /mnt is not in /etc/fstab. I manually mounted this via NFS and that's where all the files I want to backup are accessible to the command line on Server B. What am I missing? dump(8) works on entire filesystems. To copy directories, consider rsync. To copy directories but put them into archives, there's tar and numerous others.home | help
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