Re: best way to back up entire disk?
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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: best way to back up entire disk?
Quoting Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] and others: May I put in a word for HD caddies? HDs are pretty cheap nowadays and purchasing two for your system instead of one is a perfectly reasonable option. OK, so now you can backup your in-the-case system and data complete onto your removable HD, and put it somewhere safe. (Take it home with you if you like) Updating the backup is also VERY simple this way. A big advantage is that if your working in-the-case HD falls over, your backup which is little used, is there to install and work immediately. YMMV of course :-) Regards, Brian --- This message sent through Adam Internet Webmail http://www.adam.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: best way to back up entire disk?
Alex wrote: 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. Has anyone looked into working w/ the mondo project to bring something like that to *BSD systems http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo nuk To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
best way to back up entire disk?
[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. -- Ray Kohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] While anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, the true test is admission to someone else. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: best way to back up entire disk?
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 18:25:48 -0500 Ray Kohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. You could run a `dd if=/dev/ad0s1 of=ad0s1-safe.img` then `dd if=ad0s1-safe.img of=/dev/ad0s1` to restore To get it on the cd you could just bzip2 it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
