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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!wits.uni.net.za!ru.uni.net.za!uct.uni.net.za!quince.nac.ac.za!news From: fabian@srvnac1.nac.ac.za (Fabian Leite) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: backing up filesystems Date: 26 Nov 1996 07:45:48 GMT Organization: National Accelerator Centre Lines: 21 Message-ID: <57e77c$m1@quince.nac.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: belch.nac.ac.za Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.14 I'm running INN1.4unoff4 on freebsd2.1.5 Sometimes I get a error saying / filesystem full, when I run news.daily The system software and inn software are on a 850Meg ide harddrive. I want to replace the 850Meg with a 2gig scsi harddrive. Is there an easy way to backup all the filesystems(/,/usr,/var) on the 850Meg hardrive to a 2gig (scsi) harddrive and boot from the 2gig. Any help would be appreciated thanks fabian email> fabian@nac.ac.za