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Old 6th May 2008
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Originally Posted by chavez243 View Post
backup options are many and varied... I might lean towards tar for what you are doing. I use dump for backing up to tape and dd for imaging entire disks.

Also - google Clonezilla - nice tool to add to your kit.
dd can run under FreeBSD, can Clonezilla do it too? This is to save the system goes reboot and downtime, not good if its a server
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