Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:03:51 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola@familycareintl.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Dump Help Message-ID: <43833357.4080102@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9622ED3@fci-ex.FCI> References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9622ED3@fci-ex.FCI>
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Jean-Paul Natola wrote: >Hi all, > >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 > >dump / -0aL -f /usr/home/H/bsd_bkp/1116 / > >it runs well it says dump complete > >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.... > > dump, as the manual page will tell you, backs up a single partition. Your / *partition*: /dev/ad0s1a 248M 35M 193M 15% / has only 35Mb of data so a 37Mb dump seems just right. Now try the same for /usr, /var (and if you care) /tmp and you'll have what you want. You might want to consider compressing those backups e.g.: dump / -0aL -f - / | gzip -9 > /usr/home/H/bsd_bkp/1116.gz which you can later restore with a command like: gunzip -c /usr/home/H/bsd_bkp/1116.gz | restore -ivf - OR restore -r or whatever parameters suit your needs. If you rotate your bsd_bkp dir whenever you do a full dump, you could do regular incrementals in between kept with the relevant full dumps for neatness. Compressing will make much better use of your remote disk, and unless you have some shrivelled up old CPU will not too slow. If it is too slow, then a -5 or even a -1 to gzip would still make a difference, unless you have nothing but images/video/audio files. --Alex
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