Re: backup existing sata drive

2006-10-02 Thread Damian Wiest
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 03:20:33AM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote: Eeh, are the differences between real backup and point in time recovery? Point in time recovery allows you to restore you system to a single point in time. Backups, depending on how they're performed, give you multiple points in

Re: backup existing sata drive

2006-09-30 Thread Dino Vliet
Thanks for your answer. I can mount all the partitions (ubuntu via the mount_ext2fs command). So, I could use DD, but then I would have to do this every time I want to be synchronized. This would be the firts thing I could try, when the disk drive arrives. Then I would know I have at least a

Re: backup existing sata drive

2006-09-29 Thread Damian Wiest
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 03:08:53PM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote: 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

Re: backup existing sata drive

2006-09-29 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2006/09/29 14:08, Dino Vliet seems to have typed: I waant to use this extra drive as a backup solution. What options do I have? Dump is an excellent solution if you can mount all partitions (see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html for details on