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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2000 17:18:31 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Adrian.Stewart@london-fire.gov.uk
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <20000626171831.B11007@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <E273D79D637ED3119E3A0008C72B63CC03B845EC@mainexc2.lfcda.org.uk>; from Adrian.Stewart@london-fire.gov.uk on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:08:35PM %2B0100
References:  <E273D79D637ED3119E3A0008C72B63CC03B845EC@mainexc2.lfcda.org.uk>

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On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:08:35PM +0100, Adrian.Stewart@london-fire.gov.uk wrote:
> Does anyone know of a disk cloning programme (like Powerquest Drive Image,
> Norton Ghost) that will allow me to make a full copy of a Free BSD partition
> for disaster recovery purposes.

That ought to be tar(1) you're talking about :-)

Seriously though, apart from saving the disk partition and label
information in hardcopy, and a tarball of the system, I rarely use other
methods.  I have thought of using dd(1) at times, but the empty areas of
the filesystem are certainly not very interesting to me.

-- 
Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr >
For my public key: finger keramida@ceid.upatras.gr


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