From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 11 9:38:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns1.wallace.edu (dns1.wallace.edu [207.157.58.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9672415540 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:38:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mfeller@mail.wallace.edu) Received: from mail.wallace.edu (wscc-58-133.wallace.edu [207.157.58.133]) by dns1.wallace.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA26737 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:47:30 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37B1A3D6.4E17A970@mail.wallace.edu> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:24:55 -0500 From: Mark Feller Reply-To: mfeller@wallace.edu Organization: Wallace Community College X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: New at This Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just inherited our school's FreeBSD 2.2.8 internet server last month. Since I did so, I have had a major system crash (not software related) that resulted in lotsa bucks being spent to bring in a consultant to get the system set back up. This box has a tape drive in it (and FreeBSD is recognizing it, so I assume it will work?!?!), but my predecessor, in his infinite wisdom, has never used it. I just got a head cleaner and a set of tapes in this morning. My question here is: what command line should I use this first time to get a complete system back-up. I want to back up in such a way that if I lose the entire system again, all I have to do is a basic new install and then restore the back up. Thanks in advance for your assistance in this matter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message