Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 21:14:14 -0800 From: nuk <nuk@panix.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: best way to back up entire disk? Message-ID: <3DEEE0A6.9010709@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <9229571812.20021205015806@dds.nl> References: <20021202232548.GA71444@arkadia.nv.cox.net> <9229571812.20021205015806@dds.nl>
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Alex wrote: >Dear/Beste Ray, > >Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 12:25:48 AM, you wrote: > > > >>[please CC me, I'm not subscribed] >> >> > > > >>I'm looking for a way to back up my entire system in such a manner that >>if it fails and I need to restore it, I would be able to do it to any >>arbitrary disk without having to first install the base OS before >>restoring. I'm running -CURRENT. >> >> > > > >>What I have at my disposal is a CD-RW drive (ATAPI, but that really >>doesn't matter so much with ATAPI-CAM in the tree), one disk (ad0) with >>only FreeBSD on it, and no other machines to do network backup to. >> >> > > > >>Ideally, I want something that can automatically span multiple CD-RW's >>when writing and can be restored using only the tools on the CD-2 live >>fs. Just boot from CD-2, swap CD's, restore to a totally blank disk, >>reboot, and it's all as good as new. >> >> > > > >>Dump/restore and tar (both using cdrecord to write) are the only things >>I can think of, but neither of these seems ideal to me. >> >> > >http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ > >Ghost for Unix might be the solution for you. It is released under the >BSD licence but not in the port system of FreeBSD. Check the site for >more info. > > > Has anyone looked into working w/ the mondo project to bring something like that to *BSD systems http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo nuk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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