Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:17:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: mfeller@wallace.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New at This Message-ID: <199908111717.KAA14183@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <37B1A3D6.4E17A970@mail.wallace.edu> from Mark Feller at "Aug 11, 99 11:24:55 am"
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According to Mark Feller: > I just inherited our school's FreeBSD 2.2.8 internet server last month. > Since I did so, I have had a major system crash (not software related) > that resulted in lotsa bucks being spent to bring in a consultant to get > the system set back up. This box has a tape drive in it (and FreeBSD is > recognizing it, so I assume it will work?!?!), but my predecessor, in > his infinite wisdom, has never used it. I just got a head cleaner and a > set of tapes in this morning. My question here is: what command line > should I use this first time to get a complete system back-up. I want to > back up in such a way that if I lose the entire system again, all I have > to do is a basic new install and then restore the back up. Thanks in > advance for your assistance in this matter. > Check out the December, 1998 AnswerMan column of DaemonNews for a discussion of doing backups. www.daemonnews.org will get you to the current issue, and a click will take you to the earlier issues. gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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