On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:21:52AM -0800, Kevin Smith wrote:
Hello, I'm asking for current recommendations on how to backup my
complete system (OS and all installed ports and user directories) now
that i've spent quite a bit of time getting it right. i'd hate to have
to reinstall everything again in the event of a drive failure. Here is
my allocation:
df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s2a 5948558 3071326 240134856%/
/dev/ad0s2d 23498930 1377932 20241084 6%/home
Questions:
1) Should I purchase an inexpensive drive and clone the filesystems ?
If so, what is the best way to do this. Drives are inexpensive and I
20G backup drive would be fairly cheap.
2) I'm installing a DVD drive - I suppose I could make DVD backups
across multiple CD's.
3) any sugs ?
I've been giving this some thought also. I've played around w/ ccd, on
4.11, with two identical 40 Gig drives. I've worked w/ cdbkup; I like
it okay, as not only does it work well enough, it was a bit of a
challenge for me to learn. I've been meaning to look at DAR, but
haven't had time.
I've given some consideration to a large HDD, in a cheapo case like
the ones made by Bytecc, and dumping things over a USB 2 cable.
But if you are buying a DVD drive, maybe something like cdbkup or DAR
with growisofs (but maybe not; I only know CDRW bits) is the thing.
The only thing I'm not wild about, WRT cdbkup, is that it tars the
files in questions. I'd like to be able to mount the cd, and look at
the contents.
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