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.
Has anyone else done this? I haven't found any mention via Google,
which has me concerned that there might be a good reason no one's
done this that I haven't thought of. One issue I ran into
thus far has been the 500 GB Western Digital MyBook USB drive
I tried first makes my system crash when I plug it in. I can get
another USB drive and repurpose the one I've got right now, but
before I put any more resources into this idea, I thought I'd
bounce it off some experts.
Any suggestions, links, etc. welcomed. Particularly for large
capacity USB drives that won't crash my system.
Regards,
--
Patrick Baldwin
Systems Administrator
Studsvik Scandpower, Inc.
1087 Beacon St.
Newton, MA 02459
1-617-965-7455
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