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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: Fastest way to get an entire FBSD system back online?
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On 2 Mar 2011 22:07:39 -0000, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
> It's not as automated as the Windows approach, but if you know what
> you're doing it's mostly limited by the speed of the disks.  Use dump
> rather than an image copy so you only restore what's actually in use.

Unlike "Windows", UNIX gives you the ability to create
a fully programmable automated approach according to
your needs, e. g. for multiple installations, defective
systems can be booted via LAN, USB or CD, then it can
be determined _which_ system it is automatically, and
the proper backup sets can be restored. Partitioning
tasks (labeling, slicing, partitioning, newfsing and
tunefsing, as well as other pre-restore tasks) can
also be fully automated, reducing any interaction to
zero (which is less than nearly-zero), which means
that it's even better automated than "Windows".

By the way, you can create similar procedures if you
are using ZFS.


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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
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