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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!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: backing up filesystems Date: 27 Nov 1996 00:33:19 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <57g28f$jmu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <57e77c$m1@quince.nac.ac.za> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E fabian@srvnac1.nac.ac.za (Fabian Leite) wrote: > 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. disklabel and newfs the new drive, than use piped dump/restore combos to move the files. Best do this in single-user mode, so the original files are not risky to be modified while the copy is in progress. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)