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Subject: Re: newfs on a SSD
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On Tue, 29 May 2012, Roland Smith wrote:

> What I would certainly recommend is that you make a daily automated backup
> (may I suggest calling rsync from cron at night?) of the SSD's filesystem to
> an actual HDD, just to be sure.

sysutils/rsnapshot is convenient.  I used it to rsync the new SSD onto a 
hard disk.  Very space-efficient, and in a way, it's a "slow mirror".