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Date:      Tue, 14 Aug 2001 19:11:08 -0700
From:      "Kory Hamzeh" <kory@avatar.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Backup suggestions
Message-ID:  <005f01c1252f$8bd0eba0$14ce21c7@avatar.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010815014124.28643.qmail@web5303.mail.yahoo.com>

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Hi,

I am setting up a system running 4.3-RELEASE. This system will have two IDE
drives, each being about 30G. I would like to write a cron jobs to copy all
of the filesystems from the first physical drive to the second one every
night. I want to make sure the second drive is an exact duplicate of the
first, so in case of a crash, I can make the second drive the master and
boot off of it.

That is the best tool to use for this? tar? cpio? dump? dd?

I will probably have 3 filesystems and a swap partition on the first drive.
I know a raid controller with do this for me, but I prefer to keep the
hardware are simple as possible, mostly for reliability reasons.

Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Kory


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