Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

[Matthew Seaman]

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On 18/04/2010 15:37:03, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote:
> 2) init 1  (this closes all applications and drop into single user)

It kills everything ungracefully and will screw up anything that needs
to sync state to disk -- like mysql.

Just use shutdown(8): it's what it's there for.

  # shutdown now "Going single user to make backups"

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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