From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 10 08:31:25 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEE5A106566B for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:31:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@vereshagin.org) Received: from mx1.skyriver.ru (ns1.skyriver.ru [89.108.118.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A76BC8FC14 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:31:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (h-185-55.a189.priv.bahnhof.se [85.24.185.55]) by mx1.skyriver.ru (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E70545A90 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:21:17 +0400 (MSK) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:20:57 +0400 From: Peter Vereshagin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120610082056.GA12735@external.screwed.box> References: <4FD38B9A.4010400@qeng-ho.org> <12119.1339295453@tristatelogic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <12119.1339295453@tristatelogic.com> Organization: ' X-Face: 8T>{1owI$Byj]]a; ^G]kRf*dkq>E-3':F>4ODP[#X4s"dr?^b&2G@'3lukno]A1wvJ_L(~u 6>I2ra/<,j1%@C[LN=>p#_}RIV+#:KTszp-X$bQOj,K Subject: Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:31:26 -0000 Hello. 2012/06/09 19:30:53 -0700 "Ronald F. Guilmette" => To Arthur Chance : RFG> Thank you Arthur, and yes, trying to back up a partition that's currently RFG> mounted r/w using dd will almost certainly not produce the desired results. You can make snapshot to back up rw-mounted volume with dd. dump(8)ing rw-mounted ufs makes a snapshot behind the scenes. -- Peter Vereshagin (http://vereshagin.org) pgp: A0E26627