On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:20:11PM +0000, oinkfreebiker@att.net wrote:
> Here's something I used to do often...on the Amiga...can 
> you do it on NetBSD? (Can't on Win32!)
> 
> On the Amiga 2000, I used to do backups by copying one 
> whole hard drive to another. The HD being copied was the 
> main HD, with the OS on it and everything, and the CPU 
> was doing other stuff besides.
> 
> It was never a problem. I used to do that every week for 
> my backup, just copy dh0: to dh1: It always worked and 
> never a hitch.
> 
> You can't do that on Wyndoze. It will snag and hang up 
> the first file it tries to copy while in current use. The 
> Amiga did it, so it can't be impossible.
> 
> My question is, can you do that on NetBSD?

Yes, of course. Just set up a crontab to do it.
Use cp -rp, pax, find/cpio, dd, ... what is the best suited for
your need.
Oh, and of course you can use a real backup program, which will write
an archive you can write to a tape, or as a big file on a partition:
tar, dump, etc ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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