Re: FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups

2007-08-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i'm doing this with my notebook. Great. What kind of drive? And have you actually had to do a restore? some used 80GB 3.5" drive (Seagate) + noname USB-IDE jack (true noname, nothing written on it). the latter costed 6$ new, including disk power supply. works very well. i don't make an

Re: FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups

2007-08-23 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Thursday 23 August 2007 18:31:05 Patrick Baldwin wrote: > 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

Re: FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups

2007-08-23 Thread Patrick Baldwin
Wojciech Puchar wrote: 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 ser

Re: FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups

2007-08-23 Thread 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 rsy