From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 19 6:58:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39EAF37B401 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 06:58:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8378A43E4A for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 06:58:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gAJEw9c13320; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:58:09 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200211191458.gAJEw9c13320@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: restore question To: grant.cooper@nucleus.com (Grant) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:58:09 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-questions) In-Reply-To: <015c01c28f63$4ffead20$4569cecd@donatev49iknkl> from "Grant" at Nov 18, 2002 04:33:42 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > You guys mentioned earlier that if you are able to you should dump from > single user mode. No one ever talks about booting off the fixit CD. Wouldn't > that improve your chances of a successful backup because you would be > minimizing file changes. In Root you are still running off the / correct? Well, sort of, but in single user mode none of the daemons are running. The only changes that might get made are ones you make yourself. So, it not likely to be a problem. You are not likely to do anything else while the dumps are running. ////jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message