From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 15:17:52 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 53FA416A422 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:17:52 +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 DC2BD43D9F for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:16:53 +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 10:16:35 -0500 Message-ID: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9622EE5@fci-ex.FCI> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Dump Help Thread-Index: AcXvdotkD716OZexSpqDfsD31DVJfQAAOy/A From: "Jean-Paul Natola" To: "Jerry McAllister" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 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 15:17:53 -0000 As you all can tell by now I'm new to this, and I'm avidly reading = through my AbsoluteBsd book. I don't really save any data to the BSD box just logs, I use it for = scanning email (Exim, ClamAV, SA)=20 My goal is to backup the file/files/partitions so that if the box blew = up , I can just grab a new box install bsd , then restore it. -----Original Message----- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu]=20 Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 10:08 AM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump Help >=20 > Hi all,=20 >=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 >=20 > 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% >=20 > here's the command I ran=20 >=20 > dump / -0aL -f /usr/home/H/bsd_bkp/1116 / >=20 > it runs well it says dump complete=20 >=20 > but my file only turns out to be 37,314,560 bytes >=20 > what am I missing , Ideally I would like ( I think I would at least) = the > WHOLE disk to be backed up.... The dump utility backs up by file system, not by drive. You told it to back up the '/' file system and it apparently did. (That was that final '/' in your command line. I don't think the first '/' belongs there unless it is something odd that I=20 have been missing - so I think the command should read: dump -0aLf /usr/home/H/bsd_bkp/1116 / that is if '/usr/home/H/bsd_bkp/1116' is really the correct place to write the dump file)_ You then may also want to run dump for /usr and /var. That would get the rest of the drive that is meaningful. You probably don't want to bother with /tmp though you could. ////jerry >=20 > Freebsd 5.4 >=20 > =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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 >=20