As with what he said. :)  Dump and Restore are your friends.

Also, in a crunch:

tar -z -c -f /path/to/your/backup.tar.gz /filesystem

Do that once for each mounted filesystem, and make sure backup.tar.gz lives on another system, perhaps on an nfs mount.

Chad Gross wrote:
The handbook is your friend:

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

and most likely:

man dump

Chad

On 12/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi

This is Arun from Singapore. I basically want to know how to back up
files if a computer is already running on FREEBSD. Please help me with
this as it is urgent.

Thanking you
Arun
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