Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 22:58:15 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Cc: jbrann@panix.com, JSINNOTT@pomona.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shutdown MSGS Message-ID: <199607012258.WAA03416@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199607012132.VAA13871@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> (message from Sean Kelly on Mon, 1 Jul 1996 15:32:50 -0600)
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> James> Obviously it had started developing bad sectors and the > James> first one happened to be in the swap partition. So if you > James> ever see this message, start backing up immediately! > > No! Start backing up now! All right, all right, I knew I should have added the words "if you haven't already done so" :-) > Seriously, any installation without a > backup procedure is just asking for it. The standard Unix backup > software (dump, restore) is one way to get started. Amanda is > another. BRU is yet another. Agreed. Actually, my backup was a 420MB IDE drive, of which FreeBSD can only see 327MB (for reasons which no-one has been able to convincingly explain to me) - this is just big enough to hold backups of my CVS tree and home directory and a minimal FreeBSD install, but not enough to do any work :-( > Even Micro$oft Windoze comes with a backup program; the fact that they > expect you to backup to a hundred or so floppies is absurd. But, > that's the PC market! Not that absurd for those of us who can't afford several hundred pounds for a tape drive - in fact I'm backing up my ex-backup drive as I speak! -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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