From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 17 19:17:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4954937B40D for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 19:17:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sageone (ppp-208-191-234-141.dialup.crchtx.swbell.net [208.191.234.141]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA07576 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 21:17:16 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20010917211717.06b79c98@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 21:17:17 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: FS backup to Hard Disk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would like to do nitely cron backup everything for full restore to a second hard disk: /mnt/fat32/backupdir I gather I need to use "tar" to do this, but not exactly sure of the precise command and switches. Don't want to mess up on this. Here's my fstab: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s2a 99183 29641 61608 32% / /dev/ad0s2f 8835083 673328 7454949 8% /usr /dev/ad0s2e 19815 2317 15913 13% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc /dev/ad1s1 13264736 3086024 10178712 23% /mnt/fat32 Guidance on exact tar line command would be appreciated.... thanks in advance. Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message