From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 4 17: 0:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 353D337B401; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 17:00:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp06.wxs.nl (smtp06.wxs.nl [195.121.6.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 262EF43EBE; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 17:00:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akruijff@dds.nl) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp06.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H6MG4D01.5ZY; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 02:00:13 +0100 Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 01:58:06 +0100 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.61) Personal Reply-To: Alex X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <9229571812.20021205015806@dds.nl> To: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Ray Kohler Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best way to back up entire disk? In-Reply-To: <20021202232548.GA71444@arkadia.nv.cox.net> References: <20021202232548.GA71444@arkadia.nv.cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear/Beste Ray, Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 12:25:48 AM, you wrote: > [please CC me, I'm not subscribed] > 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. > 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. > 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. > 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. http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ 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. -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message