On Sunday 10 June 2012 03:30:53 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > I don't care to take own my system to make backups... and don't believe > that I should have to do so, and thus, this is one of the reasons why I > would prefer to use something like cpio. > > Also, I don't like backups taking longer than absolutely necessary, and > this is why I am specifically _not_ attracted to either the dd solution > or to dump/restore,
Not an immediate solution but have you considered switching from UFS to ZFS ? If you have sufficient memory and CPU power then this might be worth the effort. Creating ZFS snapshots and backing them up incrementally with zfs send | zfs receive should be very quick. -- Mike Clarke _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"