Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:44:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> To: Jim Stapleton <stapleton.41@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backing up SOHO server Message-ID: <20061022213937.K11854@chylonia.3miasto.net> In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20610221232m192b7d3di7b0ccefce22cd57f@mail.gmail.com> References: <1b6a9c1b5cb2.1b5cb21b6a9c@reyrey.net> <80f4f2b20610221232m192b7d3di7b0ccefce22cd57f@mail.gmail.com>
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> Hmm, not familiar with "dump" or "restore", but what I would suggest, i am. very good tools, maybe except restore slowly processes directory listings when >10 millions file are in backup. but restores fine anyway :) dump is always fast, -L is very useful things, but manual mksnap+dump may be more useful if more than one copy needs to be done. works directly (-a) with SCSI tapes and with DVD+RW drives (with /dev/acd*). i'm using it over a year in FreeBSD (and 3 years at all) and it works. i had to do full restore 2 times one because of disk crash, other time after doing rm -rf / instead of rm -rf /a (where a was temporary directory) because i missed just this a :) incremental dumps are most important to me, nothing else really works that way, while gtar is said to ;) use chflags nodump to flag /tmp/* and other dirs that are not important.
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