Re: Daily script and root backup question.

2005-12-15 Thread Mikolaj Kucharski
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:20:19PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > What "problem" are you trying to solve? It's my curiosity and urge for understanding. > > What procedure is more safety? dd'ing device and then run fsck on > > output device, or runing after dump/restore installboot? > > There are m

Re: Daily script and root backup question.

2005-12-14 Thread Nick Holland
Mikolaj Kucharski wrote: > Hi, > > Looking at /etc/daily I can see that backup is done by dd(1) command: > > echo "Backing up root filesystem:" > echo "copying /dev/r$rootdev to /dev/r$rootbak" > dd if=/dev/r$rootdev of=/dev/r$rootbak bs=16b seek=1 skip=1 \ > conv=

Daily script and root backup question.

2005-12-14 Thread Mikolaj Kucharski
Hi, Looking at /etc/daily I can see that backup is done by dd(1) command: echo "Backing up root filesystem:" echo "copying /dev/r$rootdev to /dev/r$rootbak" dd if=/dev/r$rootdev of=/dev/r$rootbak bs=16b seek=1 skip=1 \ conv=noerror fsck -y /dev/r$ro