Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Sergio" == Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi.sergio at gmail.com> writes:

>> 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

Sergio> Ok you are right... 

Sergio> for me worked because I never use mysql...
Sergio> but I use zfs  and I think that during shutdown, /etc/rc.d/zfs   is
Sergio> called stop
Sergio> so it unmounts all zfs partition...  (I did not tested...)...

Nope.  "shutdown" doesn't appear in /etc/rc.d/zfs keywords, so it won't
get "stop" during normal shutdown.  That must happen later.

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