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Date:      Tue, 29 May 2012 19:13:31 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: newfs on a SSD
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205291906080.70867@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120529180500.GA92876@slackbox.erewhon.net>
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On Tue, 29 May 2012, Roland Smith wrote:

> What I would certainly recommend is that you make a daily automated backup
> (may I suggest calling rsync from cron at night?) of the SSD's filesystem to
> an actual HDD, just to be sure.

sysutils/rsnapshot is convenient.  I used it to rsync the new SSD onto a 
hard disk.  Very space-efficient, and in a way, it's a "slow mirror".



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