Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:19:32 +0200 From: Jan Hlodan <jan.hlodan@gmail.com> To: "J.D. Bronson" <jd_bronson@sbcglobal.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file? Message-ID: <w2ufbded2e1004180719l545efe72ld3d361e306673d67@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BCB07C0.8010305@sbcglobal.net> References: <4BCB07C0.8010305@sbcglobal.net>
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you can migrate to zfs and then create snapshot of whole disk, import
this snapshot (e.g. via ssh) and then restore it back.
Good luck.
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Jan Hlodan
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:23 PM, J.D. Bronson <jd_bronson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I have a freebsd 8.0 install and was wondering if it is possible to tar up
> the entire install...for backup purposes.
>
> # cd /
> # tar -cvf backup.tar {list of directories}
>
> then I can ftp the tar file out to another machine.
>
> This works in theory, but if I need to do a restore tar complains
> on 'tar -xpf backup.tar'.
>
> Under OpenBSD, this works as expected. It has given me an easy way
> to backup/move/restore or anything I want to do w/o complaining.
>
> I am running Freebsd on a machine that has no other drives/tapes or anything
> so my options for backup are limited.
>
> All I am trying to do is get a complete image (or snapshot) of my entire
> install on this machine and then if I needed to reload or reinstall, I could
> do a bare bones freebsd install, copy over the tar'd up file and extract it
> from within / and then reboot an I would be go to go.
>
> Thoughts on this would be appreciated...
>
>
>
> --
> J.D. Bronson
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