Date: 19 Jul 2000 11:20:13 -0400 From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com> To: Sam Carleton <scarleton@miltonstreet.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: backing up a remote machine Message-ID: <lf7lai9mfm.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com> In-Reply-To: Sam Carleton's message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:13:08 -0400" References: <397465F4.DF9BCE64@miltonstreet.com>
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:13:08 -0400, Sam Carleton <scarleton@miltonstreet.com> said: Sam> The FreeBSD machine that I have setup is now sitting in a server Sam> room that I do not have access to. It is running a small domain. Sam> How should I go about backing up the machine on a regular basis? Sam> I do have other UNIX machines that have tape drives. Is the best Sam> thing to tar the files up and send them over to the tape drive on Sam> the other machine via ssh? Or is there a better way? What files Sam> should I be backing up for sendmail? Anyone know if there is Sam> something special I need to do to backup MySQL databases? Check Amanada (www.amanda.org) for centralized network-based backups of multiple target machines. Amanda knows how to run tape jukes to so it's a big win for automating multiple targets. For quick and dirty, check "rsync" running over ssh; it's clever enough to just send the changes so it keeps bandwidth down. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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