Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:08:57 +0200 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups Message-ID: <200708240008.58635.tijl@ulyssis.org> In-Reply-To: <46CDB649.8060102@studsvik.com> References: <46CDB649.8060102@studsvik.com>
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On Thursday 23 August 2007 18:31:05 Patrick Baldwin wrote: > 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. I use it for a different purpose than you, but I've installed FreeBSD onto a 120Gb Western Digital Passport (2.5") USB drive. It was just like installing normally and works like a charm. That USB drive isn't supposed to crash your system by the way. Have you filed a PR or something?
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