Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:24:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: pete@bowtie.nl (Peter Weijmarshausen) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using dd to make backup of disk? Message-ID: <199903101524.KAA01521@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <36E658FE.F60CAC31@bowtie.nl> from Peter Weijmarshausen at "Mar 10, 99 12:35:26 pm"
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Peter Weijmarshausen wrote, > Before you all start mailing me about how stupid it > is to use dd as a backup mechanism: I use this in > order to maintain an instant bootable backup. > So if the primary disk crashes I unplug it, reboot the > system and I have a working system again. Why is, # cd backupfs # dump -0af - origfs | restore -rf - Any less 'instant?' And 'dump' is meant to handle live filesystems. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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