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Cc: Eduardo Morras <nec556@retena.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: backup tools
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>
> PXE booting gives a lot of possibilities.  I use it to boot Clonezilla to 
> back up Windows systems.  That is better than dd, since only used disk blocks

ntfsclone is what you need. for sure simpler.
> For FreeBSD and other open operating systems, sysutils/rsnapshot is a

what is exactly rsnapshot "added value" to rsync, and what is exactly this 
fuss about hardlinks?