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 -- 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
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