Yes, I was doing a whole "drive" backup.
But even the "disk clone" function failed to do any better, which is really odd. (It has always worked on windoze machines, no matter how partitioned).
I have come across Clonezilla. That may be a better way. I can't find a list of supported hardware though, and the only contact is via yet another damned forum where one has to register. FreeBSD itself supports that ethernet adaptor OK.
Edit:
Searching the Clonezilla forum for "Atheros" I see lots of people having problems but nobody offering a solution, apart from this
If you are familiar with compiling a kernel module, then you can compile the module, and follow http://drbl.org/faq/fine-print.php?p...m-squashfs.faq to put the module in the filesystem.squashfs. Then follow http://drbl.org/faq/fine-print.php?p...o_from_zip.faq to generate the iso file.
which is strictly for unix experts
TBH I would be happy if I could back up the SSD to a cheap USB-attached HD, but the Gigabyte utility, which really ought to support that in the BIOS, doesn't.