On 24.02.01, 08:26:34, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> > 	<wojtek@wojtek.from.pl> wrote:
> > > whats going wrong?!
> > > 
> > > dump -h 0 -0 -B 5000000 -k 64 -L "root-backup" -u /
> > Specify raw device file instead of root directory.
> but then i need to shutdown! i want dumping while working

Why would you have to? Dump only reads from a file system; to quote from
init(8):

"1	secure mode [...] disks for mounted filesystems, [...] are
	read-only."

So you can still make backups from 'live' filesystems. Nothing else
would be acceptable for a server operating system.

> 
> 

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