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Date:      Sat, 06 Aug 2005 22:26:17 +0400
From:      Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
To:        Michael Hopkins <michael.hopkins@hopkins-research.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Port for creating a bootable clone disk
Message-ID:  <19622470@srv.sem.ipt.ru>
In-Reply-To: <BF1AB3EF.3F535%michael.hopkins@hopkins-research.com> (Michael Hopkins's message of "Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:37:35 %2B0100")
References:  <BF1AB3EF.3F535%michael.hopkins@hopkins-research.com>

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Hi!


On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:37:35 +0100 Michael Hopkins wrote:

> Just wondering if there is a port that lets me create a bootable clone of my
> boot disk without too much messing about?

You may take a look at sysutils/rdiff-backup. It is written at Python
an provides client/server operation.

> Ideally it would:

> 1) perform incremental backups like rsync

Yes.

> 2) work on both a mounted volume and over a network

Yes.

> The aim would be to be able to boot from it with no extra effort other than
> changing the boot disk at startup.

> Any ideas?

rdiff-backup saves uid/guid information as well as timestamps. The
only difference that is creates it's own directory with internal
information.


WBR
-- 
bsam



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