RE: dumping the contents of a hard-drive

From: Scott Renna (srenna_at_vdbmusic.com)
Date: 10/30/03

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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:16:54 -0500

    What would you guys say would be the best method of dumping a live file
    system and excluding a certain group of directories(namely /tmp and
    /mnt)?

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    [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Mike Maltese
    Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:03 PM
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    Subject: Re: dumping the contents of a hard-drive

    > Hi. I have a FreeBSD 5.1 box that has 2 hard drives. They are both
    > Seagate ST380011A (Capacity: 78.18 GB). Currently I am only utilizing
    > one hard drive and Iam planning to use the other one as a back-up.
    >
    > Which utility can I use to dump all the contents of the my first drive

    > to the second drive?

    dump perhaps? See the man pages for dump and restore.

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.
    html
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