Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:38:13 -0600 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20021215123813.012c4b88@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <20021215103044.GA18795@nagual.st> References: <200212142217.gBEMHkEq014939@peedub.jennejohn.org> <20021214124320.GA15363@nagual.st> <200212142217.gBEMHkEq014939@peedub.jennejohn.org>
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At 11:30 AM 12.15.2002 +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote: >On Dec 14 Gary wrote: >> dick hoogendijk writes: >>> What's the (dis)advantage of inode-per-inode cloning? > >> I just made the comment re: inode-per-inode because AFAIK that's the >> way dump/restore will work. > >Ok w/ me. Don't know too much the ins-and-outs of backup progs yet, so I >was (am) curious about the (dis)advantages of the most well-known-ones. >People always mention dump/restore.. > >> I'm not aware of an advantage or disadvantage to using dump/restore >> (except for restoring from tape) > >Hmmm, I don't have a tape-unit unfortunately. Always clone to another >harddive. Not quite sure what you mean right here. > Dick: You don't have to use Tapes. Check a little closer. Dump/restore works very, very well from HD to HD. Makes bootable backups and is the one I trust the most with my data and files system backups. "dd" is good for "Ghost-like" image..... makes a bootable as well although you may have to run fsck to boot up.... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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