From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 25 11:33:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7738153BC for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:33:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (cs1-gw.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.171.72]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA19640 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:32:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:19:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Backup of the entire system Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had some experiences with RS/6000 several years ago. I usually inserted a 8mm tape and backed up everthing into it (or at least the root filesystem, I am not sure. But I am sure SMIT in AIX has the system backup facility). If the system was corrupted, I just restored from the tape which is bootable. It was a lot easier than installing from scratch. Now I am asking if I can do similar things on FreeBSD. This time I want to use CD-ROM instead of tape (because I do not have a tape drive). In other words I want to create a ISO CD image from a live system. I can FTP the CD image to another NT machine and burn it. Any help is appreciated. -------------------------------------------------- Zhihui Zhang. Please visit http://www.freebsd.org -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message