Best procedure for full backup of live system

[Nerius Landys]

Thanks again guys.  My final series of steps to take full backups:

bsdlabel ad4s1                    | ssh -p 22222 nlandys at localhost dd
of=/home/nlandys/backup/bsdlabel_ad4s1
dmesg -a                          | ssh -p 22222 nlandys at localhost dd
of=/home/nlandys/backup/dmesg
dd if=/dev/ad4 bs=512 count=1     | ssh -p 22222 nlandys at localhost dd
of=/home/nlandys/backup/MBR
cat /etc/fstab                    | ssh -p 22222 nlandys at localhost dd
of=/home/nlandys/backup/fstab
dump -0Lan -f - / | gzip          | ssh -p 22222 nlandys at localhost dd
of=/home/nlandys/backup/dump0-root.gz
dump -0Lan -f - /tmp | gzip       | ssh -p 22222 nlandys at localhost dd
of=/home/nlandys/backup/dump0-tmp.gz
dump -0Lan -f - /var | gzip       | ssh -p 22222 nlandys at localhost dd
of=/home/nlandys/backup/dump0-var.gz
dump -0Lan -f - /usr | gzip       | ssh -p 22222 nlandys at localhost dd
of=/home/nlandys/backup/dump0-usr.gz

... where port 22222 on localhost is a pipe to my remote desktop with
the 500 GB harddrive.  If I missed anything important please let me
know.