From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 19 21:57:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA03728 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 21:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA03723 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 21:57:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA00609; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 21:56:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 21:56:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Megan Connolly cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to make backups? In-Reply-To: <3421B4AE.62DE@haverford.pvt.k12.pa.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Megan Connolly wrote: > We are running FreeBSD on a "noname" Pentium machine, with a floppy > drive and a CD drive. We are running this as our web server and our > email server. I am living dangerously, because I do not have a backup. > How do I create a backup of the system? What software do you recommend > and can I perform a backup to floppies, or should I have a tape drive > installed? The usual way to make backups is using the `tar' or `dump' programs. Most modern systems are too big to make floppy backups manageable. Tapes are the way to go, as long as they are run on a SCSI bus. The floppy tapes just don't work. We have a Connor tape that works great. The Travan stuff looks really good and as long as it's SCSI it should be supported with little problem. For tapes, dump works best; check out the man pages and make use of the -a option if it's available in your version. Otherwise use the -b and -B options to specify the tape size. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo