Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:30:22 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi.sergio@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Backing up freebsd to 1 file? Message-ID: <4BCB258E.6050906@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1271601423.1287.15.camel@localhost> References: <4BCB07C0.8010305@sbcglobal.net> <20100418161015.f20206f0.freebsd@edvax.de> <1271601423.1287.15.camel@localhost>
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On 18/04/2010 15:37:03, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote:
> 2) init 1 (this closes all applications and drop into single user)
It kills everything ungracefully and will screw up anything that needs
to sync state to disk -- like mysql.
Just use shutdown(8): it's what it's there for.
# shutdown now "Going single user to make backups"
Cheers,
Matthew
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