From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 17:31:44 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 E740F16A50D for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:31:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raggen@passagen.se) Received: from av12-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (av12-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF7243CA4 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:24:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from raggen@passagen.se) Received: by av12-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 4290037F1D; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:25:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.92]) by av12-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F33AF37EE1; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:25:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (81-231-90-251-no41.tbcn.telia.com [81.231.90.251]) by smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ADE537E42; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:25:55 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <457EE5A6.3040102@passagen.se> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:23:50 +0100 From: Roger Olofsson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Shadwick , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20061212063009.kctzgagozc8gokc8@www.dasmax.com> <17489c7a0612120546x11996604k8c86a3a546067973@mail.gmail.com> <457EBF9B.2090902@oss-solutions.com> In-Reply-To: <457EBF9B.2090902@oss-solutions.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Backing up FREEBSD 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 17:31:45 -0000 Hello, If you have a spare machine with the diskspace neeeded then you might want to consider rsync over ssh. Rsync can do incremental backups, which can be nice and timesaving. There's plenty to read about it if you Google for "Freebsd backing up rsync ssh ports". Tony Shadwick skrev: > As with what he said. :) Dump and Restore are your friends. > > Also, in a crunch: > > tar -z -c -f /path/to/your/backup.tar.gz /filesystem > > Do that once for each mounted filesystem, and make sure backup.tar.gz > lives on another system, perhaps on an nfs mount. > > Chad Gross wrote: >> The handbook is your friend: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html >> >> >> and most likely: >> >> man dump >> >> Chad >> >> On 12/12/06, arun@dasmax.com wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> This is Arun from Singapore. I basically want to know how to back up >>> files if a computer is already running on FREEBSD. Please help me with >>> this as it is urgent. >>> >>> Thanking you >>> Arun >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >>> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >