From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 4 21:14:26 2002 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 81A6037B401 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 21:14:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.1.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D439D43EA9 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 21:14:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nuk@panix.com) Received: from panix.com (unknown [207.178.42.148]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADCB748714 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 00:14:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3DEEE0A6.9010709@panix.com> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 21:14:14 -0800 From: nuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: best way to back up entire disk? References: <20021202232548.GA71444@arkadia.nv.cox.net> <9229571812.20021205015806@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <9229571812.20021205015806@dds.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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