Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:46:16 -0800 From: "Peter A. Giessel" <pgiessel@mac.com> To: Dino Vliet <dino_vliet@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backup existing sata drive Message-ID: <451DA238.4070402@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20060929220853.38048.qmail@web51114.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060929220853.38048.qmail@web51114.mail.yahoo.com>
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On 2006/09/29 14:08, Dino Vliet seems to have typed: > I waant to use this extra drive as a backup solution. > What options do I have? Dump is an excellent solution if you can mount all partitions (see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html for details on using dump) DD would be another option that would copy the entire hard drive sector by sector, regardless of the partitions. If you are interested in basically a "mirror" sort of situation without running RAID, dd is what you are looking for. dd doesn't care what the partitions are, indeed you could even backup Microsoft partitions with it. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dd&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE&format=html basically: dd if=/dev/sourcedisk of=/dev/backupdisk bs=1m
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