From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 10:59: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.root-servers.ch (alpha.root-servers.ch [195.49.62.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6659C37B587 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 10:59:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 8262 invoked from network); 17 May 2000 18:01:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ATHLON-550) (62.2.99.59) by ns1.root-servers.ch with SMTP; 17 May 2000 18:01:02 -0000 Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 19:59:47 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.42 Beta/19) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1288141757.20000517195947@buz.ch> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: Backup of FreeBSD .. In-reply-To: <00051808382502.00339@freebsd.freebsd.org> References: <10410598209.20000516175727@buz.ch> <00051808382502.00339@freebsd.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Danny, Thursday, May 18, 2000, 12:36:36 AM, you wrote: > And also with the NFS idea + try something called Netmax file server which can > also help you perform backups and even automatically. > But, I really like the idea of using dump and 2 HD's. But someone already typed > that in one of the response. Beeing quite paranoid, I would not recommend to it this way. It might seem to be the most convenient solution but it has two minor disadvantages: you may lose your config if there's fire or even worse, if someone cracks your system. Offsystem or even offsite storage MAY prevent you then from much reconfiguring! Best regards, Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message