From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 15 2:46:50 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 5723A37B401 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:46:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout08.sul.t-online.com (mailout08.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EB8F43EA9 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:46:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Received: from fwd02.sul.t-online.de by mailout08.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18NWID-0007TY-03; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:46:41 +0100 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (520017439985-0001@[217.228.214.197]) by fmrl02.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18NWHz-1Z8fAWC; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:46:27 +0100 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.jennejohn.org (8.12.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gBFAkJYB009806; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:46:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.jennejohn.org) Message-Id: <200212151046.gBFAkJYB009806@peedub.jennejohn.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.3 To: dick hoogendijk Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:30:44 +0100." <20021215103044.GA18795@nagual.st> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:46:19 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn X-Sender: 520017439985-0001@t-dialin.net 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 dick hoogendijk writes: > On Dec 14 Gary wrote: > > 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. > I use dump/restore for doing backups to tape, not for cloning file systems. ``restore -i'' is nice because it lets the user pick and choose which files (s)he ( non-sexist :) wants to restore beforehand. That's what I was thinking of when I wrote the above. And of course, dump/restore are the standard way to backup file systems to tape in the *NIX world. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org gj@denx.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message