Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:03:24 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910142159080.75575@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <560f92640910142042tc46f1e3lb81ac1e4528a44ab@mail.gmail.com> References: <560f92640910142042tc46f1e3lb81ac1e4528a44ab@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Nerius Landys wrote: > My question is, what is the recommended procedure of taking a full > backup on a live system? Ideally, if my hard drive were to crash, I > would like to have such a backup so as to make it possible to copy > over the entire backup to a new identical harddrive without doing any > reinstall or configuration. Should I use tar/gzip? dump? What exact > command should I use? dump(8) with the -L option will take a snapshot of a live filesystem and then back that up. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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