Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:46:19 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> To: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition Message-ID: <200212151046.gBFAkJYB009806@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:30:44 %2B0100." <20021215103044.GA18795@nagual.st>
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dick hoogendijk writes: > On Dec 14 Gary wrote: > > I'm not aware of an advantage or disadvantage to using dump/restore > > (except for restoring from tape) > > Hmmm, I don't have a tape-unit unfortunately. Always clone to another > harddive. Not quite sure what you mean right here. > I use dump/restore for doing backups to tape, not for cloning file systems. ``restore -i'' is nice because it lets the user pick and choose which files (s)he ( non-sexist :) wants to restore beforehand. That's what I was thinking of when I wrote the above. And of course, dump/restore are the standard way to backup file systems to tape in the *NIX world. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org gj@denx.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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