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Old 01-03-2010
How to recover root file system

Please can anyone explain me how to take a backup of root file system and how to recover it if it is corrupted. please explain me in detail
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Old 01-03-2010
as always there is more then one way to do this... maybe start reading about things like:

- jumpstart
- flasharchive
- ufsdump
- zfs snapshots
- ...
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