Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:28:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: abandaly@gmail.com (Allan Bandaly) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about backing up filesystem/boot disk Message-ID: <200408101328.i7ADSRK29456@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <63638bc90408100619f3b866@mail.gmail.com> from "Allan Bandaly" at Aug 10, 2004 09:19:27 AM
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> I have recently built a 1.7TB file storage server for our digital lab
> and I was wondering what the easiest way to backup the SCSI boot disk
> to the RAID5 array would be? I was thinking something along the lines
> of dd if=/dev/XXXXX of=/array/fbsd5disk or similar... if anyone can
> give me correct syntax and or options or a better options please let
> me know, thanks.
dump 0af /array/rootdump /
is probably the best.
If you other file systems on that disk you want backed up
do similar.
dump 0af /array/usrdump /usr
For example.
You can then restore(8) individual files, directories or whole filesystems
as you need.
////jerry
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> Allan Bandaly
> Reedy Photoprocess
> IT, Digital Lab Dept.
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