With the right settings of --backup --backup-dir you can easily create a
week (or two or three or whatever) archive of the "daily" changed files.
So, for example..
/backup/usr - contains identical copy
/backup/dailys/usr/Mon - contains files that changed on /usr on Monday.
Then just set things
From: Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: freebsd-questions
Subject: Re: backup system rsync <-> dump
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 11:15:55 -0500 (CDT)
With the right settings of --backup --backup-dir you can easily create a
week (
Philip Hallstrom wrote:
I have two disks; one is the fbsd system drive, the other is for backup
purposes.
I'm in doubt about what to use: dump or rsync
I guess I can do something like:
mount /dev/ad1s3a /backup/root
mount /dev/ad1s3d /backup/var
mount /dev/ad1s3f /backup/usr
/usr/local/bin/rsyn
I have two disks; one is the fbsd system drive, the other is for backup
purposes.
I'm in doubt about what to use: dump or rsync
I guess I can do something like:
mount /dev/ad1s3a /backup/root
mount /dev/ad1s3d /backup/var
mount /dev/ad1s3f /backup/usr
/usr/local/bin/rsync -avHxS --delete /usr /b
I am using rsync for syncing fwo hard disk(with all the files or make it hot
backup) and must say rsync is perfect..
It will save you a lot of time.
On 5/2/06, dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have two disks; one is the fbsd system drive, the other is for backup
purposes.
I'm in d
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> I have two disks; one is the fbsd system drive, the other is for backup
> purposes.
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> I'm in doubt about what to use: dump or rsync
I use dump/restore, but do the command slightly differently.
Since dump works on a file system I cd to the destination mount point
and work from there and I d
