FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups

[Wojciech Puchar]

> I'm thinking of backing up my FreeBSD 6.2 webmail server by installing
> FreeBSD onto the USB, and then dumping the whole filesystem onto the USB. 
> That way, in the event of a drive failure, I can boot off the
> USB drive, and then just restore everything onto the webmail server.

good idea. man rsync :)

>
> Has anyone else done this?  I haven't found any mention via Google,

i'm doing this with my notebook.