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Date:      Wed, 04 Dec 2002 21:14:14 -0800
From:      nuk <nuk@panix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: best way to back up entire disk?
Message-ID:  <3DEEE0A6.9010709@panix.com>
In-Reply-To: <9229571812.20021205015806@dds.nl>
References:  <20021202232548.GA71444@arkadia.nv.cox.net> <9229571812.20021205015806@dds.nl>

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Alex wrote:

>Dear/Beste Ray,
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>Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 12:25:48 AM, you wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
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>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.
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Has anyone looked into working w/ the mondo project to bring something 
like that to *BSD systems http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo

nuk


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