From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 3 7:27: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB4E37B955 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 07:26:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA90444; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:26:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:26:53 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200008031426.QAA90444@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making a RELEASE X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable In-Reply-To: <8mbrki$24ac$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Organization: Administration TU Clausthal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In list.freebsd-stable Nora Etukudo 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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Addresses will change soon!! If in doubt: www.fromme.com "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message