From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:04:54 +0000 From: trebol To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <20130325020454.GA30785@one.invalid.invalid> References: <20130324221029.GA23536@one.invalid.invalid> <5f805f457dd047c8e3d07b9da6038843@brasstown.quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5f805f457dd047c8e3d07b9da6038843@brasstown.quanstro.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: [9fans] Disk backup? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 33ad8cac-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > if you can afford it, i'd make a periodic copy of the dump device to > another disk in the same machine. i might even consider just copying > the whole disk. I've had bad experiences with CDs and DVDs, so I'm going to follow your advise and just copy the whole dump device; and keep reading the documentation, but I think in the future I'll ask the list about the correct restoration of the dump. Thanks a lot! trebol.