From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 7:30:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shell.selkie.org (cr296652-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com [24.115.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B82F37BDE1 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:30:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@selkie.org) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by shell.selkie.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA04948; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:37:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@selkie.org) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:37:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Phillips To: Sam Carleton Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: backing up a remote machine In-Reply-To: <397465F4.DF9BCE64@miltonstreet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Using tar and then scp would be fine. If you don't want to tar them up, you could look into something like rsync http://rsync.samba.org/. To backup your MySQL db, you need to do a mysqldump. It's a good thing to cron. For sendmail all that you should really need to back up is your virtusertable, sendmail.cw and sendmail.cf if you have made any changes to it. -Chris Phillips On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Sam Carleton wrote: > The FreeBSD machine that I have setup is now sitting in a server room > that I do not have access to. It is running a small domain. How should > I go about backing up the machine on a regular basis? I do have other > UNIX machines that have tape drives. Is the best thing to tar the files > up and send them over to the tape drive on the other machine via ssh? > Or is there a better way? What files should I be backing up for > sendmail? Anyone know if there is something special I need to do to > backup MySQL databases? > > Sam > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message