From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 14:38:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@FreeBSD.org 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 202BB16A42A for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:38:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jnatola@familycareintl.org) Received: from mail.familycareintl.org (mail.familycareintl.org [68.167.21.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8948B43D70 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:38:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jnatola@familycareintl.org) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:38:14 -0500 Message-ID: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9622ED3@fci-ex.FCI> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Dump Help Thread-Index: AcXvcl7dGJNheySXS1C7RE9GdoehHw== From: "Jean-Paul Natola" To: Cc: Subject: Dump Help 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, 22 Nov 2005 14:38:41 -0000 Hi all,=20 I'm trying to utilize dump to copy the entire disc to a network drive , = so that in the event of hardware failure I can just restore to a new = machine Here's the output of df Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 248M 35M 193M 15% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/ad0s1e 248M 12K 228M 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s1f 4.9G 651M 3.8G 14% /usr /dev/ad0s1d 248M 59M 169M 26% /var devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /var/named/dev total 5.6G 745M 4.4G 14% here's the command I ran=20 dump / -0aL -f /usr/home/H/bsd_bkp/1116 / it runs well it says dump complete=20 but my file only turns out to be 37,314,560 bytes what am I missing , Ideally I would like ( I think I would at least) = the WHOLE disk to be backed up.... Freebsd 5.4 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: Jnatola@Familycareintl.org=20