From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Dec 15 6:22:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1D0D37B401 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 06:22:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24B8443ED1 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 06:22:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from house (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id gBFELwiR040109; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 09:22:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: "Simon" Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network backup Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 09:22:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20021213165625.GB91604@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:07:18 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.isp you = wrote: >archive grew over gig or so in size, it errored out on me). Dump is a >mess to work with, it doesn't work with directories nor with single >archive file. You need to keep creating new dumps using different >backup levels and I don't know how you will restore files for x user >using all those little dumps when you need to efficiently. Dump will work with a single archive file per level. Yes, it does work on= a file system basis and not directory, but your generally want a level0 backup of your entire system anyways. Its also very efficient for = restoring the odd file from the archive file. restore -i -f and its MUCH nicer to work with than tar this way. If you keep 5 levels of = incremental dumps, yes, you will need to do this potentially for 5 different files, = but still works as expected. We do something like this /sbin/dump -0uanf - /usr |gzip -9 | ssh remoteuser@backupserver.example.com dd of=3D/home/targetdir/root-server-al0.gz ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net)=09 http://www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message