From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 26 09:49:57 2003 Return-Path: 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 B8D0516A4BF for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:49:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop018.verizon.net (pop018pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA29643FAF for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:49:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.237.14.199]) by pop018.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030826164956.QXKP11703.pop018.verizon.net@mac.com>; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:49:56 -0500 Message-ID: <3F4B8FA7.8090006@mac.com> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:49:43 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willie Pretorius References: <27FB1953E2443846920C67993C157CA0E70E59@mail.sema.co.za> In-Reply-To: <27FB1953E2443846920C67993C157CA0E70E59@mail.sema.co.za> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop018.verizon.net from [68.237.14.199] at Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:49:55 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Information Free BSD Imagin Utillities X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:49:57 -0000 Willie Pretorius wrote: > Are there any existing Utilities Available Wihich I could use to create a > Complete Image (Backup Image) of a Server Running Free BSD. Yes, FreeBSD ships with dump, tar, and cpio, which can all be used to take backups of directory trees or even entire filesystems. > Does Free BSD Support USB. What would be the best way to go about creating > the Image? FreeBSD supports USB. I don't understand how this question relates to the former one, but if you had a USB device like a tape drive (or even a big "USB pen drive"), you could store the backup image to one, if it fits. :-) -- -Chuck