From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 16:40:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8987F16A47E for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:40:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pgiessel@mac.com) Received: from achilles.leela.ws (achilles.leela.ws [66.207.162.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A5D43CE9 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:38:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pgiessel@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.0.193] ([158.145.111.132]) (authenticated bits=0) by achilles.leela.ws (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBCGdR8u034406 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:39:28 -0900 (AKST) (envelope-from pgiessel@mac.com) Message-ID: <457EDB44.5010808@mac.com> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:39:32 -0900 From: "Peter A. Giessel" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: probsd org References: <20061212150519.65264.qmail@web52409.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20061212150519.65264.qmail@web52409.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Backup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:40:48 -0000 On 2006/12/12 6:05, probsd org seems to have typed: > dump -L -0f - / | ssh -C login@other-freebsd-server "cat > /usr/home/login/root.dump The handbook also suggests something to the effect of: /sbin/dump -0uaL -f - / | gzip -2 | ssh login@other-freebsd-server dd of=/www/dumpdir/dump-root.gz