FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups

[Patrick Baldwin]

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?


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