From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Feb 8 6:57:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5277C37B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 06:57:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpls-qmqp-01.inet.qwest.net (mpls-qmqp-01.inet.qwest.net [63.231.195.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9ED4B43FAF for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 06:57:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wolfryder@qwest.net) Received: (qmail 87021 invoked by uid 0); 8 Feb 2003 14:57:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (63.231.195.13) by mpls-qmqp-01.inet.qwest.net with QMQP; 8 Feb 2003 14:57:49 -0000 Received: from adsl189.omah.uswest.net (HELO wolf.qwest.net) (209.180.104.189) by mpls-pop-13.inet.qwest.net with SMTP; 8 Feb 2003 14:57:49 -0000 Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 09:02:35 -0600 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20030208084734.00a931b0@pop.omah.uswest.net> From: "WolfRyder" To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Sender: wolfryder@pop.omah.uswest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Subject: Zip Drive Backups Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, I've progressed, moving right along. Before I set up security on my box I thought it would be a good idea to backup some vital files (after exploding the whole thing 3 times, you'da thought I learned earlier, eh? lol!) I finally got the zip drive mounted and working. I figured out how to .tgz files and manually copy them to the zip drive. I've looked at BSDdocs, the Man pages, some how-tos, Absolute BSD by Michael Lucas (a very good book, btw) and even asked my network admin spouse, but still can't figure out how to make the files go to the zip without manually typing the command to go there # cp [filename.tgz] [destination] or # mv filename.tgz] [destination] The instructions I found for backup were for tape backup, not zip drive. Any suggestions? Any articles out there I missed (I'm sure there are and I just didn't know where to look for them)? The commands for tape backup don't work with zip drives (I tried them). Thanks in advance, Carol To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message