From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 5:59:29 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 8BB6D37B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 05:59:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zim.0x7e.net (zim.0x7e.net [203.38.184.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C87743E09 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 05:59:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listone@deathbeforedecaf.net) Received: from goo.0x7e.net ([203.38.184.164] helo=goo) by zim.0x7e.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17RY8F-000MEz-00; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 22:30:47 +0930 Message-ID: <000801c2267f$4dd34a30$a4b826cb@goo> From: "Rob" To: "Doug Hardie" Cc: References: <000e01c22501$26e349e0$a4b826cb@goo> <000601c22572$50fd4430$a4b826cb@goo> Subject: Re: Backups to CD-R - problems with filesystems Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 22:29:32 +0930 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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 On 8 July 2002, Doug wrote: > >Why do you prefer to put archives on the backup rather than the actual > >files & directories? > > I use the tar format because of the problems with the V7 format you > mentioned. My machine that handles the backup only has a couple of > users. The production machines have thousands and directory > permissions are extremely important. By backing up in tar format, > tar is only run on the machine in question so the users are all > defined. On a complete restore to a new disk you have to restore the > password files first and get the users working before restoring the > bulk of the system. > > The other advantage is on restore, tar will restore many files in > different directories easily with one command. If you have separate > files on the backup machine, you have to move them one at a time. A > lot of extra typing. Its also easier to keep a few files on the > backup machine from getting trashed inadvertendly. When there are > lots, its easier to be in the wrong place and delete files by > accident. > I'll give it a try... thanks for the help! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message