Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:51:02 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman <iceberg@pobox.com> To: mfeller@wallace.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape Backup Help (was: New at This) Message-ID: <199908111649.LAA28611@eeyore.cc.uic.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:24:55 CDT." <37B1A3D6.4E17A970@mail.wallace.edu>
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> I just inherited our school's FreeBSD 2.2.8 internet server last
> month. [snip] 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.
Hi. If I were you, I'd check out dump(8). You can check ports and so
forth for more sophisticated backup tools if you want, but a 0-level
dump(8) will at least get you started. (Actually, I used dump(8)
regularly for quite a while.)
BTW, if someone intends to start a "FooBackup (TM) is way cooler than
BazTape (TM)!" flamewar, kindly leave me out of it... :)
Lucas
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S. Lucas Bergman
University of Illinois at Chicago
Mathematics Department
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