Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 12:21:36 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed) Message-ID: <20071205172136.GD26079@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90712050846x65d7456bw16753bbd4f36938e@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90712041638s78b4e40fn67434f2dce5e27e7@mail.gmail.com> <20071205154148.GB21074@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <539c60b90712050846x65d7456bw16753bbd4f36938e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:46:53AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > > dump 0af - / | restore -rf - > > Jerry - thanks a million. I was pouring over the dump/restore and > 'backup basics' in the handbook, and couldn't for the life of me > figure out how to get it to go to a filesystem instead of a > tape/specialdevice/file. Figured the only way was to use rsync. You just name the file using the -f parameter. In this case, use the -f, but specify the file as - and it uses STDOUT/STDIN. By the way, dump/restore will work over the net; just pipe it via ssh. When I have done that, it has seemed to be somewhat of a resource hog while it was going. But it worked. ////jerry > > Steve
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