I have two FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE servers running NFS. I have tons of files on
Server A that I want to backup to a big drive on Sever B. Server B nfs_mounts
one of the filesystems on Server A to /mnt. So if I wanted to make a backup of
the filesytem on Server A to Server B I tried:
dump -d
El día Sunday, October 23, 2011 a las 06:04:14AM -0700, Bill Tillman escribió:
I have two FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE servers running NFS. I have tons of files on
Server A that I want to backup to a big drive on Sever B. Server B nfs_mounts
one of the filesystems on Server A to /mnt. So if I wanted
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Bill Tillman wrote:
I have two FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE servers running NFS. I have tons of files on
Server A that I want to backup to a big drive on Sever B. Server B nfs_mounts
one of the filesystems on Server A to /mnt. So if I wanted to make a backup of
the filesytem on
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 06:04:14 -0700 (PDT), Bill Tillman wrote:
I have two FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE servers running NFS. I have
tons of files on Server A that I want to backup to a big
drive on Sever B. Server B nfs_mounts one of the filesystems
on Server A to /mnt. So if I wanted to make a backup of
Hello.
2011/10/23 21:08:14 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de = To Bill Tillman :
P The dump + restore mechanism operates on device files
P representing a file system, not a _mounted_ file system,
P as source.
dump(8) is able to make a snapshot behind teh scenes, and use that snapshot as
a source
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Polytropon wrote:
But note that this will dump the _complete_ file system's
content to /mnt as dump cannot be more selective here.
The nodump flag along with -h0 can be used to exclude files or
directories. But agreed, dump is gear towards entire filesystems.
