When I originally set up my SSD, the stuff I was following indicated there was
no need to put anythng on a separate filesystem. I'm now trying to build a
backup system on a usb drive and I want a separate /var and /tmp.
I had originally set the nodump flag on /tmp and /var, so my snapshot is empty
for those.
I don't think there's any reason to preserve /tmp, but is there any good way to
copy /var from the running system on the SSD to another filesystem (and still
preserve everything, including flags)? My impression is both mksnap_ffs and
dump should only be used on a complete filesystem, not a subtree.
Or do I need to unset the nodump flag on /var, make a snapshot of /, take a
dump :-), and then split the /var out upon restore?
And would it be wise to repartition the SSD to put /var and /tmp on their own
partitions?
i really have no idea why you just don't dump it all? restore have -i
option that allow you to partially restore files from a dump.
I have SSD, single partition and i use dump to backup it to external hard
disk.
alternatively - use tar.
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