From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 15 2:31:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B794C37B401 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:31:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [217.120.160.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A777743E4A for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:31:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from dick by nagual.st with local (Exim 3.35 (Debian)) id 18NW2m-0004xO-00 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:30:44 +0100 Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:30:44 +0100 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition Message-ID: <20021215103044.GA18795@nagual.st> References: <20021214124320.GA15363@nagual.st> <200212142217.gBEMHkEq014939@peedub.jennejohn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200212142217.gBEMHkEq014939@peedub.jennejohn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: dick hoogendijk Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Dec 14 Gary wrote: > dick hoogendijk writes: >> What's the (dis)advantage of inode-per-inode cloning? > I just made the comment re: inode-per-inode because AFAIK that's the > way dump/restore will work. Ok w/ me. Don't know too much the ins-and-outs of backup progs yet, so I was (am) curious about the (dis)advantages of the most well-known-ones. People always mention dump/restore.. > I'm not aware of an advantage or disadvantage to using dump/restore > (except for restoring from tape) Hmmm, I don't have a tape-unit unfortunately. Always clone to another harddive. Not quite sure what you mean right here. > but thought that cpdup might be easier to understand and use. This is absolutely true afaik. Cpdub is a very nice program and very easy to handle. -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.7 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message