Dear/Beste Ray,

Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 12:25:48 AM, you wrote:

> [please CC me, I'm not subscribed]

> I'm looking for a way to back up my entire system in such a manner that
> if it fails and I need to restore it, I would be able to do it to any
> arbitrary disk without having to first install the base OS before
> restoring. I'm running -CURRENT.

> What I have at my disposal is a CD-RW drive (ATAPI, but that really
> doesn't matter so much with ATAPI-CAM in the tree), one disk (ad0) with
> only FreeBSD on it, and no other machines to do network backup to.

> Ideally, I want something that can automatically span multiple CD-RW's
> when writing and can be restored using only the tools on the CD-2 live
> fs. Just boot from CD-2, swap CD's, restore to a totally blank disk,
> reboot, and it's all as good as new.

> Dump/restore and tar (both using cdrecord to write) are the only things
> I can think of, but neither of these seems ideal to me.

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

Ghost for Unix might be the solution for you. It is released under the
BSD licence but not in the port system of FreeBSD. Check the site for
more info.

-- 
Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet,
Alex


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