From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 16:40:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00807 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:19:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06898 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:36:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA22412; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 20:57:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 20:57:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ricardo AG Almeida cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best backup solution? In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980108020528.00a1d710@ptero.ag.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Ricardo AG Almeida wrote: > Machine #1 have a DAT unit, and mounts (via NFS) Machine #2 filesystems at > /server2 > > To backup both machines I am using > > tar -cSPM --totals \ > What am I doing wrong? Is there a better solution? Yes. Dump is a better solution. See rdump(8). You can dispose of NFS as the transfer medium; this should speed up your backups (assuming NFS is slowing down your backups). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major