Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

[Mike Clarke]

On Monday 11 June 2012 00:03:59 Daniel Feenberg wrote:

> It does occur to me that /etc is not a felicitous place to keep this
> information, but given the desirability of dumping filesystems in read
> only state, placing the dump dates in the filesystem itself isn't
> feasible.

Dumping with the -L option creates a temporary read only snapshot which is 
used as the source for the backup. This enables you to safely backup a live 
filesystem,

More background on snapshots at 
<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/snapshots.html>

-- 
Mike Clarke