From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 8 06:55:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA18172 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 06:55:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay1.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA18165 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 06:55:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjent@rjent.pair.com) Received: from isz ([204.184.227.3]) by relay.pair.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA16392 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 10:05:30 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199811081505.KAA16392@relay.pair.com> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 8:43:59 -0600 From: RJEnt Reply-To: rjent@rjent.pair.com To: "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: tar disaster recovery questions Organization: RJEnt X-mailer: FoxMail 2.1 [en] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, I am a rookie at disaster recovery and I have hade a machine crash and have rebuilt & recovered the mission critical data however I am a bit puzzled if I went about my recovery the correct way. To backup I am using: tar -cv /* to backup to the tape. Successful recovery steps were: I wanted to upgrade the os while I was at it and I installed a basic install running the features I wanted then I put the mission crititcal data back on it via: tar -x stuff_I_wanted_back (mostly apps that I am serving from Samba) while located in / on the disk. This all went well but, but when I restored the home dirs then I lost my link to /home so I just recreated it by: ln -s /usr/home /home I hope that was right it seems to be working. My question are: Does tar not support this? Should I switch to dump and why? All thoughts welcome so I may improve my disaster recovery plan. Thanks! http://www.rjent.pair.com FreeBSD, Nothing but the BEST! Samba + FreeBSD =FreePDC! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message