Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 02:35:58 +0100 From: Michael <soppscum@online.no> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: ataraxia@cox.net Subject: Re: best way to back up entire disk? Message-ID: <20021203023558.3864dbb8.soppscum@online.no> In-Reply-To: <20021202232548.GA71444@arkadia.nv.cox.net> References: <20021202232548.GA71444@arkadia.nv.cox.net>
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On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 18:25:48 -0500 Ray Kohler <ataraxia@cox.net> wrote: >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. You could run a `dd if=/dev/ad0s1 of=ad0s1-safe.img` then `dd if=ad0s1-safe.img of=/dev/ad0s1` to restore To get it on the cd you could just bzip2 it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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