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Subject: Re: backing up a remote machine
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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

Sam,
You can use dump and rmt to backup remote machines. See the man pages
for more details.

Bob


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