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Subject: Re: Looking for a Good FreeBSD and General Unix Backup System
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> 	Several months ago, I started using dar to backup a
> number of FreeBSD and Linux systems to one FreeBSD box. It
> worked fine once one got the syntax of the remote commands
> working, but then it all died when I moved it to a new
> FreeBSD6.3 system.
>

if you are backup up to disk on same/other server, use rsync.

cp -lpR is very useful for doing "snapshots"