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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:32:00 -0700, jungle Boogie wrote:
> I also came across Warren's site on backing up systems:
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/backup.html

Mandatory. :-)



> So because freebsd now puts everything under /, it is more ideal to
> use something like dump or are you in the same boat and it requires
> separate partitions?

The dump program operates on file systems. So if you put
/ and every subtree onto one partition, you can use dump
to dump that _whole_ partition (no matter if it's a MBR
or GPT partition).

In contrast, if you only want to dump /var or /usr, and
those are separate partitions (not on the same file system
as /), then dump will work as intended.


-- 
Polytropon
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Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...