Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 18:25:48 -0500 From: Ray Kohler <ataraxia@cox.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: best way to back up entire disk? Message-ID: <20021202232548.GA71444@arkadia.nv.cox.net>
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[please CC me, I'm not subscribed] I'm looking for a way to back up my entire system in such a manner that if it fails and I need to restore it, I would be able to do it to any arbitrary disk without having to first install the base OS before restoring. I'm running -CURRENT. What I have at my disposal is a CD-RW drive (ATAPI, but that really doesn't matter so much with ATAPI-CAM in the tree), one disk (ad0) with only FreeBSD on it, and no other machines to do network backup to. Ideally, I want something that can automatically span multiple CD-RW's when writing and can be restored using only the tools on the CD-2 live fs. Just boot from CD-2, swap CD's, restore to a totally blank disk, reboot, and it's all as good as new. Dump/restore and tar (both using cdrecord to write) are the only things I can think of, but neither of these seems ideal to me. -- Ray Kohler <ataraxia@cox.net> While anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, the true test is admission to someone else. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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