Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:20:57 +0400 From: Peter Vereshagin <peter@vereshagin.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how? Message-ID: <20120610082056.GA12735@external.screwed.box> In-Reply-To: <12119.1339295453@tristatelogic.com> References: <4FD38B9A.4010400@qeng-ho.org> <12119.1339295453@tristatelogic.com>
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Hello. 2012/06/09 19:30:53 -0700 "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> => 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 <peter@vereshagin.org> (http://vereshagin.org) pgp: A0E26627
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