From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 22 8:29: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from slkcpop4.slkc.uswest.net (slkcpop4.slkc.uswest.net [206.81.128.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B881137BACB for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:29:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jswarner@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 16254 invoked by alias); 22 Jun 2000 14:13:40 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 18409 invoked by uid 0); 21 Jun 2000 04:00:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO uswest.net) (63.224.105.251) by mail.slkc.uswest.net with SMTP; 21 Jun 2000 04:00:24 -0000 Message-ID: <39503CFD.DD647C03@uswest.net> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 21:56:45 -0600 From: Joe Warner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd newbies Subject: Backup Methods Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------F56969371C57E2E551F96368" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --------------F56969371C57E2E551F96368 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Now that I have FreeBSD 3.4 up and running and have sucessfully compiled the kernel, I need to find a way to get a good backup of my system. So far, I've only found limited information on this topic in the Handbook and The Complete FreeBSD. I don't have a tape drive hooked up to my PC. I could probably get one but that would entail a lot of work. I'd have to locate and install a SCSI card for it, recompile the kernal and complete the rest of the configuration so that the drive would be recognized. We have some 3480, 3490 and 3570 drives in our data center that are hooked up to the network. Could I use dump or tar to do a backup directly to one of these drives. I know I can also backup to a file. Could I backup to a file and then use NFS or Samba to copy it to a directory on one of our NT servers and then possibly, back down to one of the tape drives? There seem to be several options for doing backups and I'm just trying to find the best one. Any info on this would be appreciated. Thanks. Joe -- ====================== FreeBSD = The Power to Serve Simply put: FreeBSD Rocks! =================== Joe Warner Sr. Operations Technical Analyst Shared Medical Systems Corp. joe.warner@smed.com jswarner@uswest.net ================ ============ ======= === --------------F56969371C57E2E551F96368 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit  

    Now that I have FreeBSD 3.4 up and running and have sucessfully
compiled the kernel, I need to find a way to get a good backup of my
system.  So far, I've only found limited information on this topic in
the Handbook and The Complete FreeBSD.  I don't have a tape drive hooked
up to my PC.  I could probably get one but that would entail a lot of
work.  I'd have to locate and install a SCSI card for it, recompile the
kernal and complete the rest of the configuration so that the drive
would be recognized.  We have some 3480, 3490 and 3570 drives in our
data center that are hooked up to the network.  Could I use dump or tar
to do a backup directly to one of these drives.  I know I can also
backup to a file.  Could I backup to a file and then use NFS or Samba to
copy it to a directory on one of our NT servers and then possibly, back
down to one of the tape drives?  There seem to be several options for
doing backups and I'm just trying to find the best one.  Any info on
this would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Joe

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                                                                          FreeBSD = The Power to Serve
                                                                             Simply put: FreeBSD Rocks!
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                                                                                          Joe Warner
                                                                         Sr. Operations Technical Analyst
                                                                           Shared Medical Systems Corp.

                                                                                 joe.warner@smed.com
                                                                                  jswarner@uswest.net
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