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Date:      Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:58:42 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Patrick Baldwin <Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups
Message-ID:  <20070823205805.B25633@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <46CDB649.8060102@studsvik.com>
References:  <46CDB649.8060102@studsvik.com>

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> 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.

good idea. man rsync :)

>
> Has anyone else done this?  I haven't found any mention via Google,

i'm doing this with my notebook.



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