From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 11 11:55:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AFC337B719 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:55:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.2/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2BJtAV12218; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 14:55:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: matt@cape-breton-island.com (Matthew Rudderham) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What Are Standard Procedures For System Backup Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 14:55:10 -0500 Message-ID: <5klnato85jv41qs7nq8gd30ioabd5mn5d1@4ax.com> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message