you can migrate to zfs and then create snapshot of whole disk, import this snapshot (e.g. via ssh) and then restore it back. Good luck.
-- Jan Hlodan On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:23 PM, J.D. Bronson <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a freebsd 8.0 install and was wondering if it is possible to tar up > the entire install...for backup purposes. > > # cd / > # tar -cvf backup.tar {list of directories} > > then I can ftp the tar file out to another machine. > > This works in theory, but if I need to do a restore tar complains > on 'tar -xpf backup.tar'. > > Under OpenBSD, this works as expected. It has given me an easy way > to backup/move/restore or anything I want to do w/o complaining. > > I am running Freebsd on a machine that has no other drives/tapes or anything > so my options for backup are limited. > > All I am trying to do is get a complete image (or snapshot) of my entire > install on this machine and then if I needed to reload or reinstall, I could > do a bare bones freebsd install, copy over the tar'd up file and extract it > from within / and then reboot an I would be go to go. > > Thoughts on this would be appreciated... > > > > -- > J.D. Bronson > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > 5 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
