Can I back-up my sources?

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:

> Hi,
>  I only have a 4.9 cd and to upgrade to 4.10 or later
> versions, first, I install the sources from my 4.9 cd
> and then I use cvsup. Same as with FreeBSD Handbook
> and Ports.
>
> Question:
>
> In upgrading to a higher version of FreeBSD(e.g; 4.9
> to 4.10) using cvsup, and I burned the contents of my
> upgraded /usr/src to a cd, if my system crashes, will
> makeworld work if I copy the contents of the cd into a
> fresh /usr/src directory?
>
> Same as with FreeBSD Documentation(/usr/doc/en...)
> and /usr/ports.
I never had any problems with that.

Uli.


>
> Or does it always have to be done as is?
>
> ...because one time, my freebsd crashed and I really
> had a hard time fixing it and I end up re-installing
> the whole system and running a very long cvsup process
> again.
>
> Hope you could help me...
>
> Thanks
> -jay
>
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