From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 11 9:51:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eeyore.cc.uic.edu (EEYORE.CC.UIC.EDU [128.248.171.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAEE51557E for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:51:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lucas@comp04.prc.uic.edu) Received: from comp04.prc.uic.edu (COMP04.PRC.UIC.EDU [128.248.230.104]) by eeyore.cc.uic.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA28611 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:49:03 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199908111649.LAA28611@eeyore.cc.uic.edu> Received: (qmail 13125 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Aug 1999 16:51:02 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO comp04.prc.uic.edu) (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Aug 1999 16:51:02 -0000 Reply-To: Lucas Bergman X-Mailer: nmh 1.0 (MH 6.8.3) From: Lucas Bergman To: mfeller@wallace.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape Backup Help (was: New at This) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:24:55 CDT." <37B1A3D6.4E17A970@mail.wallace.edu> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:51:02 -0500 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. [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 -- S. Lucas Bergman University of Illinois at Chicago Mathematics Department PGP Public Key (0xC0C73619): finger -l lucas@math.uic.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message