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 you have all

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?

2007-02-19 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 backup

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 / snip It would be possible to use some linux distro, but support for UFS2 is required (I recall that MoviX has worked like this -