From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 15 6:51:10 2002 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 0679037B401 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:51:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C2B43E91 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:51:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (sagea [192.168.0.3]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id gAFEohD50057; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 08:50:43 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20021115085038.010abd98@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 08:50:38 -0600 To: "R. Zoontjens" , "Ruben de Groot" , "Mark" From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: RE: restore question Cc: "Matthew Emmerton" , In-Reply-To: References: <20021115091430.GA77298@ei.bzerk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 At 10:33 AM 11.15.2002 +0100, R. Zoontjens wrote: >Ruben de Groot wrote: > >>The traditional way to backup and restore filesystems in Unix has allways >>been dump(8) and restore(8). > >I use dump/restore for my filesystem backups (I use a tar-script for my >userfiles because of platform-portability) > >The only problem I have is that I cannot boot with a live-cd or fixit floppy >that has my ATA tape driver and my raid-driver. When I try to make a MINI >kernel to create a custom boot disk, it won'f fit on the floppy... > >I posted my MINI kernel yesterday. > >--- >Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, > >R.J. Zoontjens > Hard disks, at least IDEs are really inexpensive. Why not just keep a second or third HD on your machine(s) to do backups.....?? You've got the whole thing that way and in a crisis, you can be up and running on the backup HD only as long as it takes to shutdown, flip cables and reboot...just a few mins.... Tape is traditional, but slow and never as up to date as my backup HDs which I keep on each server. Also, move a copy of the dump files to a server that just holds backups for other machines.... then I can always restore to any HD of choice just in case of extreme breakdown (a crash in middle of a backup/restore to the backup HD for instance). Again, I can be back up and running within minutes, even with a substitute server. I have Internet connection cable already running over for standby on an emergency server just in case. All I have to do is restore on the slave backup machine... then take the HD to the backup server... plug in the cable and voila! ...up and running with very little loss of time or data. Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message