From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 14:25:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 130BF16A423 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:25:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from osmany.guirola@cigb.edu.cu) Received: from raptor.cigb.edu.cu (ns.cigb.edu.cu [200.55.134.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72E4B43D45 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:25:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from osmany.guirola@cigb.edu.cu) Received: from atlas.cigb.edu.cu ([172.16.1.12]) by raptor.cigb.edu.cu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:25:18 -0400 Received: from Unknown [172.16.1.4] by atlas.cigb.edu.cu - SurfControl E-mail Filter (4.6); Wednesday, 24 August 2005, 10:25:17 Received: from draco.cigb.edu.cu by mercurio.cigb.edu.cu; 24 Aug 2005 10:26:40 -0400 Message-ID: <1124893599.14321.13.camel@draco.cigb.edu.cu> From: Osmany Guirola Cruz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:26:39 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Aug 2005 14:25:18.0445 (UTC) FILETIME=[A703C1D0:01C5A8B7] Subject: pax question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:25:32 -0000 Hi people i want do backup of my home directory (some days ago i had a terrible accident with my hdd and i don't have backups of my files :-( ) now i am using or trying to use pax.....this is what i did. in the crontab i put this 0 6 1 * * root pax -wzf /160GB/backups/$filename /home/osmany/ where filename is the date of the backup and 50 23 * * * root pax -T 0000 -wzf /160GB/backups/$filename /home/osmany/ where filename is the date of the backup plus delta word. all this work perfect..... hmm this work "without problem" but i want to know if there are a better way to do my backups. i'm not sure that this was perfect ... Some help please Thanks Osmany