From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 10 08:46:07 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 5978A106566C for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:46:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from avasout05.plus.net (avasout05.plus.net [84.93.230.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E248FC08 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:46:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([84.92.153.232]) by avasout05 with smtp id LYiv1j001516WCc01YiwH4; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 09:42:56 +0100 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=Pct9d1dd c=1 sm=1 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:17 a=rLpCYgkgFLgA:10 a=RLl8lpB8pwYA:10 a=ZTb9aqGL9YkA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=D7rCoLxHAAAA:8 a=llll_gDaQCSbydyZMfYA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:117 Received: from curlew.lan ([192.168.1.13]) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SddjY-0008GA-VV for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 09:42:55 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 09:42:52 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <12119.1339295453@tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <12119.1339295453@tristatelogic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201206100942.52461.mike@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mike@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,TW_ZF autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) 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 08:46:07 -0000 On Sunday 10 June 2012 03:30:53 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > I don't care to take own my system to make backups... and don't believe > that I should have to do so, and thus, this is one of the reasons why I > would prefer to use something like cpio. > > Also, I don't like backups taking longer than absolutely necessary, and > this is why I am specifically _not_ attracted to either the dd solution > or to dump/restore, Not an immediate solution but have you considered switching from UFS to ZFS ? If you have sufficient memory and CPU power then this might be worth the effort. Creating ZFS snapshots and backing them up incrementally with zfs send | zfs receive should be very quick. -- Mike Clarke