From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 2 17:36: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E605637B401 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:36:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail46.fg.online.no (mail46-s.fg.online.no [148.122.161.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F43343EB2 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:36:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from soppscum@online.no) Received: from spam.no (ti400720a080-0299.bb.online.no [80.212.161.43]) by mail46.fg.online.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA08372; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 02:35:59 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 02:35:58 +0100 From: Michael To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: ataraxia@cox.net Subject: Re: best way to back up entire disk? Message-Id: <20021203023558.3864dbb8.soppscum@online.no> In-Reply-To: <20021202232548.GA71444@arkadia.nv.cox.net> References: <20021202232548.GA71444@arkadia.nv.cox.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 18:25:48 -0500 Ray Kohler wrote: >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. You could run a `dd if=/dev/ad0s1 of=ad0s1-safe.img` then `dd if=ad0s1-safe.img of=/dev/ad0s1` to restore To get it on the cd you could just bzip2 it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message