On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 05:20:36PM +0100, Caloro Maurizio wrote:
> dear Netbsd Group,
> 
> I want to do a Backup of my hole system (netbsd 1.6.1 i386)
> to a dds 3 tape /dev/rmt/0 and i dont know exactly with
> witch tool i can make this turn
> 
> i know it that a system that its alive it not so easy to backup
> it complettle, but i thing that?s not impossible :-)
> 
> i know it from solaris i can boot from cdrom and make a save 
> from my system ufsdump -0nf /dev/c0d0t0s0 /dev/rmt/0 usw....
> please witch way i can make on my little netbsd machine,
> its the same turn as with my solaris or its different ??

Very similar with NetBSD:

dump -0anf /dev/sd0a /dev/nst0

You can do this on a running system, just that any files that might
change during the backup would not get backed up properly (log files,
mail spools, etc).

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org