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In-Reply-To: <37B1A3D6.4E17A970@mail.wallace.edu> from Mark Feller at "Aug 11, 99 11:24:55 am"
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According to Mark Feller:
> 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.
> 

	Check out the December, 1998 AnswerMan column of DaemonNews
	for a discussion of doing backups.  www.daemonnews.org will
	get you to the current issue, and a click will take you to
	the earlier issues.

	gary



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