Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 09:42:52 +0100 From: Mike Clarke <mike@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how? Message-ID: <201206100942.52461.mike@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <12119.1339295453@tristatelogic.com> References: <12119.1339295453@tristatelogic.com>
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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
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