How to dump and restore your drives.
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It is imperative to have a solid backup and recovery strategy. Over the years, I have tried a lot of tools such as flexbackup, bacula, etc, but nothing met my needs completely. As I was looking into FreeBSD backup solutions, I, once again, came across dump and restore. I was hesitant at first to try it out because it seemed so daunting, but in reality it is very easy to setup and use should you need to recover from a disaster. Here is how I set things up and how I recover my machine from my backups when things go south...
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"All parts should go together without forcing. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer." -- IBM maintenance manual, 1975
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