Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:26:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making a RELEASE Message-ID: <200008031426.QAA90444@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <8mbrki$24ac$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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In list.freebsd-stable Nora Etukudo <nora@sappho-net.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 02:21:24PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > > have MY snapshot on a bootable CD, just in case. The price is
> > > reasonable - a night of my life :-)
> >
> > And what is the advantage over simply making a backup
> > of your disk?
>
> If I have such a CD, I can it auto install on several machines, without
> further investigation. This is much less time consuming than a cloneing
> from a backup.
Yes, I know that.
But Plamen Petkov wrote that he just needed a crash recovery
for a single box. In that case, making a full release and
putting it on CD-R is a complete waste of time, IMO.
You have to make regular backups anyway, except if you don't
care about your data at all (and then you can just re-install
from your latest release CD-ROM and start over from there).
Regards
Oliver
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