Re: Backup using dump and restore from dvd - restore cd loaded to ram ?drive?

2007-02-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Milan Knizek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 19 February 2007 16:29, Oliver Fromme wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> A simpler solution for your restore problem would be >> to simply use a standard FreeBSD installation CD, >> then make a minimal installation on your hard disk >> so y

Re: Backup using dump and restore from dvd - restore cd loaded to ram ?drive?

2007-02-19 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 19 February 2007 10:29, Oliver Fromme wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [...] > > The restore method will then require to boot from a bootable CD. The > > rescue CD system should load itself into RAM drive, so that I can > > dismount it and replace it with the CD/DVDs with the bac

Re: Backup using dump and restore from dvd - restore cd loaded to ram ?drive?

2007-02-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > The restore method will then require to boot from a bootable CD. The > rescue CD system should load itself into RAM drive, so that I can dismount > it and replace it with the CD/DVDs with the backup files. > > The rescue CD should provide basic commands and

Re: Backup using dump and restore from dvd - restore cd loaded to ram drive?

2007-02-12 Thread Joe Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list! I plan to use a full backup of my working desktop FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE with: dump -0LuB 10 -f backup.0,backup.1,backup.2 / It would be possible to use some linux distro, but support for UFS2 is required (I recall that MoviX has worked like this - but its

Backup using dump and restore from dvd - restore cd loaded to ram drive?

2007-02-12 Thread knizek
Hi list! I plan to use a full backup of my working desktop FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE with: dump -0LuB 10 -f backup.0,backup.1,backup.2 / (before I will check the number of files needed with "dump -S /") Then gzip the backup.* files separately and burn them to CDs or DVDs. The restore method will t