From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 25 10:22:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from anaconda.acceleratedweb.net (anaconda.acceleratedweb.net [209.51.164.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83BFF37B6A7 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:21:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 89076 invoked by uid 106); 25 Jan 2001 18:27:08 -0000 Received: from 24-168-46-57.nyc.rr.com (HELO sharky) (24.168.46.57) by anaconda.acceleratedweb.net with SMTP; 25 Jan 2001 18:27:08 -0000 From: "Simon" To: "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" , "peter@sysadmin-inc.com" Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:25:42 -0500 Reply-To: "Simon" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195) In-Reply-To: <002501c08713$9d5b2b20$46010a0a@sysadmininc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Simple backup program. Message-Id: <20010125182156.83BFF37B6A7@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org We use IDE harddrive / tar zcf ... to backup important files and have them available for fast restore if needed. Obviously there are many things you can do: mirror drives, parity, tapes, etc... But above does the trick for us. -Simon On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:13:05 -0800, Peter Brezny wrote: >I'm wondering what people are using for a simple backup solution. > >I'm building a server for a small isp. > >What have you all had good and bad experiences with. > >Are many of you using dump and restore, or simply tar piped to bzip2, or are >there programs you like. > >Thanks for sharing your thoughts. > >Peter Brezny >SysAdmin Services Inc. > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message