Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 18:07:46 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how? Message-ID: <20434.30642.31558.246729@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <2903.1339191855@tristatelogic.com> References: <2903.1339191855@tristatelogic.com>
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Ronald F. Guilmette writes: > I got a lot of disks here, so that part is not a problem. I just > need to make sure that I'm gonna do this the Right Way[tm]. > (I've already been making my own ham-fisted disk-to-disk backups > in the past, but I'm sure that the way I have been doing that is > sub-optimal, so I'm here seeking knowledge of how to do this the > Right Way.) > > The bottom line is this... I know how to use cpio, and would like > to use it to create a complete and _bootable_ backup of my main > system disk. (My main system disk has only one BIOS partition, > and that is sub-divided into the usual set of FreeBSD partitions, > you know, /, /dev, /tmp, /usr, /var, /usr/compat/linux/proc, and > /var/named/dev.) As far as I know, the only way guaranteed to preserve metadata is dump/restore. See previous (not necessarily recent) discussion (on this list, and possibly in the Handbook) for more information. Robert Huff
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