From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 23 21:34:10 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9612616A418 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:34:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com) Received: from bostonserver.studsvik-analytic.com (firewall.studsvik-analytic.com [155.212.59.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC0813C45B for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:34:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (pc162.studsvik-analytic.com [192.168.169.162]) by bostonserver.studsvik-analytic.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id l7NLPRYb003201 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:25:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <46CDFD6F.6070502@studsvik.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:34:39 -0400 From: Patrick Baldwin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <46CDB649.8060102@studsvik.com> <20070823205805.B25633@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20070823205805.B25633@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Re: FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:34:10 -0000 Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> I'm thinking of backing up my FreeBSD 6.2 webmail server by installing >> FreeBSD onto the USB, and then dumping the whole filesystem onto the >> USB. That way, in the event of a drive failure, I can boot off the >> USB drive, and then just restore everything onto the webmail server. > > > good idea. man rsync :) I was thinking about just dump, as I'm more familiar with it, but I'll check out rsync if you think it's better for this purpose. >> >> Has anyone else done this? I haven't found any mention via Google, > > > i'm doing this with my notebook. Great. What kind of drive? And have you actually had to do a restore? -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrator Studsvik Scandpower, Inc. 1087 Beacon St. Newton, MA 02459 1-617-965-7455