proper use of dump to backup a 5.3 box

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Tue May 10 15:27:08 PDT 2005


On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 05:28:04PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> 
>      dump 0auf /mnt/usbdrive/dumps/rootdump.20050510 /
> 
> might be what you want.   That would get you a dump of the whole root
> filesystem.   If you have another file system such as /usr then a second
> part like
> 
>      dump 0auf /mnt/usbdrive/dumps/usrdump.20050510 /usr

To save space, you can compress the dump with bzip2:

      dump 0auf - /usr | bzip2 >/mnt/usbdrive/dumps/usrdump.20050510.bz2

Roland
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