Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 17:08:14 -0500 From: lists@battleface.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: archiving and restoring disk images... Message-ID: <2F59B51B-2A94-11D8-9005-000A95775140@battleface.com>
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I dumped a disk image of my root partition like this: dd if=/dev/da0s1a | gzip -9 -c > where.ever.gz Does this include the boot sector? In other words, if I need to restore this disk image I can do the reverse and the boot sector and root partition will be back to that state. How should I go about this, if what I'm saying is valid? Can I do this in single user mode or should I boot from CD and go from there? I haven't needed to do this yet, but I want to know how. If dumping the root partition like this is not a good means of backing up, please say so. What would you recommend? I tar most everything else. Thanks for the help. Alex - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Alexander Sendzimir 802 863 5502 Mac Tutor of Vermont, LLC info @ mactutor . vt . us Colchester, VT 05446
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