Date: 15 Aug 2001 12:36:38 -0700 From: swear@aa.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup suggestions Message-ID: <md1ymdf73t.ymd@host29.207.55.120.aadsl.com> In-Reply-To: <20010814204728.B57806@sonic.net> References: <20010815014124.28643.qmail@web5303.mail.yahoo.com> <005f01c1252f$8bd0eba0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> <20010814204728.B57806@sonic.net>
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> On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:11:08PM -0700, Kory Hamzeh wrote: > > > > That is the best tool to use for this? tar? cpio? dump? dd? I'd think dd would be best if you be sure to grab and save the entire partitions and the two disks have the same heads/cyl, sects/track, and maybe even cyls/drive (though I'm guessing the latter could be different as long as your copied parts fit). I haven't tried any of that, so testing would be mandatory. BTW, you might also consider what happend to my bro. Motherboard went nuts and fried itself and his disk. I'm guessing that a second disk would have been fried as well. For this reason, I've put my backup disk on an old 486 and send data via NICs and a cross-over cable. Unfortunately, FreeBSD goes belly up during the FTP transfer and massively corrupts the OS disk (a small one, not the backup one). Twice. Don't know what the problem is. memtest86 showed memory OK. Probably will try NFS xfrs next. BTW, I've been using afio with compression for several years (only a few times per year, to tape) and use it's true-verify option which never complains. Only used it for recovery once. Using compression, and not doing some junk partitions (like ISO images, etc,) you can probably get multiple backups on your backup disk which gives you a better chanch of recovering from human errors (like when you've backed up yesterday's mistaken file changes.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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