Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:39:26 +0100 From: Mike Clarke <mike@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how? Message-ID: <201206110939.26558.mike@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1206101857470.6100@nber6> References: <48302.1339366497@tristatelogic.com> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1206101857470.6100@nber6>
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On Monday 11 June 2012 00:03:59 Daniel Feenberg wrote: > It does occur to me that /etc is not a felicitous place to keep this > information, but given the desirability of dumping filesystems in read > only state, placing the dump dates in the filesystem itself isn't > feasible. Dumping with the -L option creates a temporary read only snapshot which is used as the source for the backup. This enables you to safely backup a live filesystem, More background on snapshots at <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/snapshots.html>; -- Mike Clarke
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