From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 4 17:37:53 2005 Return-Path: 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 224E916A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:37:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from male.aldigital.co.uk (male.thebunker.net [213.129.64.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1807643D54 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:37:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from gravitas.thebunker.net (gateway.ash.thebunker.net [213.129.64.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by male.aldigital.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0347997797; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:37:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1])j04HbjjI071501; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:37:48 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <41DAD469.3010608@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:37:45 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041229) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB63924DB2C1DC18CFA23747B" cc: Eric F Crist cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions Subject: Re: Backup with dd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:37:53 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB63924DB2C1DC18CFA23747B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Garance A Drosihn wrote: > This assumes you're running 5.3-stable or 6.x-current. I am not > sure how well snapshots would work on 4.x-stable. Not at all, unfortunately. snapshots are a UFS2 feature only available in 5.x or above. However, sys-admins have been making backups without the benefit of snapshots for decades: usually if you can arrange for anything that uses the partition to be quiescent or turned off while the backup is being run, you should succeed. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK --------------enigB63924DB2C1DC18CFA23747B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBQdrUaZr7OpndfbmCAQK/5QP+Pxc+bEMj9AxMfj8lJLHVoeKnsGouMf75 TtVLAyYkOddGFJyTkaiV+pZFCbSp2lqkrkcCB7rK1QXq5n1sba60h+S+WJ0r5USY t0UVF7pbpfbs4VybBD5VxAOqhCWoOE0jNLbOFGUeBKwLZc+YeHj6Chfo6r2vP+YF w3y1/mkTmoA= =CP9+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB63924DB2C1DC18CFA23747B--