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Date:      Sun, 11 Mar 2001 14:55:10 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        matt@cape-breton-island.com (Matthew Rudderham)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What Are Standard Procedures For System Backup
Message-ID:  <5klnato85jv41qs7nq8gd30ioabd5mn5d1@4ax.com>
In-Reply-To: <SEN.984282832.504257386@news.sentex.net>
References:  <SEN.984282832.504257386@news.sentex.net>

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On 10 Mar 2001 22:53:52 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you =
wrote:

>adress tape backup methods, which unfortunately isn't useful to me. I =
have
>a Win machine on my network with a cd burner, and this would be my
>preferred method, or a tarball that could be stored on another
>machine on the network would also be an option that I could add to=20
>my cron I suppose? Thanks for the help.

You can still use dump and restore, or if you want to pick and choose =
only
critical files, tar in a pinch.  With dump, you can backup a partition to
another machine over ssh

e.g.

/sbin/dump -0uanf - / | ssh -c blowfish remoteuser@example.com dd
of=3D/path/to/file/where/dumpfile/will/be/dump-machine-root

The blowfish cipher is supposedly faster than 3des and supposedly just as
safe.

The file on the remote machine can then be manipulated via restore.

e.g.
restore -i -f dump-machine-root

You can then burn this one big file to your cd-r.

	---Mike
Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)	=09
Sentex Communications Corp,   	=09
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20
could setup a national IP network." (KDW2)

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