Backing up freebsd to 1 file?

J.D. Bronson jd_bronson at sbcglobal.net
Sun Apr 18 15:55:34 UTC 2010


On 4/18/10 10:39 AM, Warren Block wrote:
> If you don't have any other drives, where will the backup file be stored
> so it survives a system failure or reinstall?
>
>> Thoughts on this would be appreciated...
>
> dump/restore is the standard safe way; you can send it over ssh to back
> up to a file on another machine.  Sometimes people use dd, which can be
> effective if you use some tricks like filling unused space with zero so
> compression is effective.
>
> There's another option.  I've mentioned clonezilla.org here before as a
> way to back up Windows systems; it's fast and only copies used sectors.

I would sftp/scp the file over to another unix (or windows via samba) 
machine I have. Then burn the resulting file to DVD RW media.



-- 
J.D. Bronson


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