Looking for efficient way to make backup like ghost on windows

Bryan Fullerton fehwalker at gmail.com
Tue Jan 11 07:23:11 PST 2005


On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:37:31 +0000, eric wyzerski
<ericwyzerski at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for an efficient way to make backup like ghost on windows. I
> don't want to use utility like "dd" because it don't understand the file
> systems and I want to make backup on a different hd (geometry and size). So,
> anyone have a links for a good program that can do what I am looking for?

dump(8) is good. A level 0 dump is a full image of a filesystem, and
you can save dump output into a file for later use with restore(8).

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dump
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=restore

Bryan


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