From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 18 19:23:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E33537B403 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:23:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 27479 invoked by uid 100); 19 Sep 2001 02:23:51 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15272.439.602501.324106@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:23:51 -0500 To: "Todd Reed" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup Procedures In-Reply-To: <70348476@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Todd Reed types: > How do others backup their system? I mean, do you kick off all users, deny > logins, or does the system get backed up while users are logged in and > working? Yes. > What are the procedures? My standard practice on multiuser systems is to take daily backups while the system is live. The danger here is that files - including directories - can be skipped, or captured in an inconsistent state. For weekly backups, I shut the system down to avoid those problems. Generally, should I need to restore a file that was skipped one day, I can get it off the previous days backup. If someone has something running via cron such that it's never captured properly by dump, it'll still come off the weekly backup. Copies of the weeklies are also sent off-site. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message