From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 18 6:18:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47DA237B40D for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 06:18:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sageone (ppp-208-191-234-45.dialup.crchtx.swbell.net [208.191.234.45]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA09654; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:18:17 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20010918081819.06b79c98@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:18:19 -0500 To: Richard Tobin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: FS backup to Hard Disk In-Reply-To: <200109181249.NAA23018@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 Richard: Thanks. I agree with that assessment and as I said in a previous reply, testing the restoration is important and I'm amazed how many do backups but never tried a restore until it was a real need.... Tapes are the tradition, but very sloooowwww and I like to have all kinds of backups available. All of the Win2K machines have backups running on a second hard disk and several restores have been made with 100% success.... I believed I knew the proper tar usage for this experiment, but I have seen some mighty good tips from this list full of very knowledgeable folks.... At 01:49 PM 9.18.2001 +0100, Richard Tobin wrote: >> OTOH, a backup within the very same box is no backup. > >More accurately, it's only 99% backup. In the last twenty years I >have had to do dozens of restorations (from single files to whole >systems) from backup, and every one of them would have worked >perfectly well if the backup had been "in the very same box". > >It's all a question of balancing risks and costs. How bad would it >be to lose all your data? How likely is it? > >-- Richard > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message