From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 26 21:50:19 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A2D1065672 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:50:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd2mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C5168FC17 for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:50:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd3mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr6so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.21]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JZY00BMYCN3A040@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:49:51 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.150]) by pd3mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JZY003FICN3JD10@pd3mr6so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:49:52 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gom.home ([70.67.160.176]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JZY00HLHCN33E30@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:49:51 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gom.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gom.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A635B83E for ; Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:49:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:49:49 -0700 From: prad In-reply-to: <31702B1B-03EF-4505-8BDF-D82A90C865ED@goldmark.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20080426144949.11bffa9c@gom.home> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <31702B1B-03EF-4505-8BDF-D82A90C865ED@goldmark.org> Subject: Re: USB HD based backup schemes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:50:19 -0000 On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:26:53 -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > I'm sure that I could roll my own with dump or such, but I'm sure > that I would leave important things out > i don't know about that, jeffrey. i found dump to be very straightforward and i think it's great you can ssh backups elsewhere. i looked at some of the others (amanda, cpio i think) too and they looked involved to me (admittedly this was several years ago so i don't know if things have changed more recently). -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's