From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 19 8:20:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Samizdat.uucom.com (samizdat.uucom.com [198.202.217.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE85E37C07F for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:20:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cshenton@uucom.com) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by Samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA28005; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:20:13 -0400 (EDT) To: Sam Carleton Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: backing up a remote machine References: <397465F4.DF9BCE64@miltonstreet.com> From: Chris Shenton Date: 19 Jul 2000 11:20:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sam Carleton's message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:13:08 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:13:08 -0400, Sam Carleton said: Sam> The FreeBSD machine that I have setup is now sitting in a server Sam> room that I do not have access to. It is running a small domain. Sam> How should I go about backing up the machine on a regular basis? Sam> I do have other UNIX machines that have tape drives. Is the best Sam> thing to tar the files up and send them over to the tape drive on Sam> the other machine via ssh? Or is there a better way? What files Sam> should I be backing up for sendmail? Anyone know if there is Sam> something special I need to do to backup MySQL databases? Check Amanada (www.amanda.org) for centralized network-based backups of multiple target machines. Amanda knows how to run tape jukes to so it's a big win for automating multiple targets. For quick and dirty, check "rsync" running over ssh; it's clever enough to just send the changes so it keeps bandwidth down. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message