Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:34:39 -0400 From: Patrick Baldwin <Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups Message-ID: <46CDFD6F.6070502@studsvik.com> In-Reply-To: <20070823205805.B25633@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <46CDB649.8060102@studsvik.com> <20070823205805.B25633@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> I'm thinking of backing up my FreeBSD 6.2 webmail server by installing >> FreeBSD onto the USB, and then dumping the whole filesystem onto the >> USB. That way, in the event of a drive failure, I can boot off the >> USB drive, and then just restore everything onto the webmail server. > > > good idea. man rsync :) I was thinking about just dump, as I'm more familiar with it, but I'll check out rsync if you think it's better for this purpose. >> >> Has anyone else done this? I haven't found any mention via Google, > > > i'm doing this with my notebook. Great. What kind of drive? And have you actually had to do a restore? -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrator Studsvik Scandpower, Inc. 1087 Beacon St. Newton, MA 02459 1-617-965-7455
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