dumping the contents of a hard-drive

[Scott Renna]

What would you guys say would be the best method of dumping a live file
system and excluding a certain group of directories(namely /tmp and
/mnt)?



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From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Mike Maltese
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:03 PM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org; freebsd-newbies at freebsd.org
Cc: gihl at i-am-gil-agno-virtucio.ph
Subject: Re: dumping the contents of a hard-drive

> Hi. I have a FreeBSD 5.1 box that has 2 hard drives. They are both 
> Seagate ST380011A (Capacity: 78.18 GB). Currently I am only utilizing 
> one hard drive and Iam planning to use the other one as a back-up. 
> 
> Which utility can I use to dump all the contents of the my first drive

> to the second drive?

dump perhaps? See the man pages for dump and restore.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.
html
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