Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:08:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Dino Vliet <dino_vliet@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: backup existing sata drive Message-ID: <20060929220853.38048.qmail@web51114.mail.yahoo.com>
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Good evening peeps, I have this 80gb sata seagate harddisk in my freebsd amd64 system. This harddisk is partioned so I can dual boot with Ubuntu. So I have data on my freebsd partition as well as on my ubuntu partition. As I'm getting paranoia, I would like to know how to get by this situation, now that I've ordered a new sata seagate 80gb harddrive. I waant to use this extra drive as a backup solution. What options do I have? a) Can I just plug the new hard drive in and write a script that dumps the entire /usr/ directory onto the new hard drive? But what about my ubuntu partition then? b) Should I use raid-1, disk mirroring for this situation, knowing I will "loose" a whole 80gb disk? Will it work for the entire disk? What about the fact that I'm NOT starting with two empty disks? Hope anyone can help me out. I've never been there, so these will be my first steps. Thanks in advanced __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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