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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"