From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 18:34:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA14730 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 18:34:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line1.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA14706 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 18:34:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA00261; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 18:34:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 18:34:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Timothy P. Layton, Sr." cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding programs from sysinstall ? In-Reply-To: <199609201730.MAA12324@mail1.inlink.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Timothy P. Layton, Sr. wrote: > I would like to install some tyoe of backup program on my new > FreeBSD server. I noticed that when I went into sysinstall that > there were a few options under archivers and under sysutils. I > choose to install afio-2.4.1 as a possible solution to my backup > needs. Once the file copy is completed how do I actually install the > product ? Did it work? If so then it's installed. Otherwise, you can mount the CD, go to packages/ and use 'pkg_add' to install the package. > If you have any other suggestion on know good tape backup programs I > would be interested in knowing your thoughts. The UNIX default 'dump' and 'amanda' come to mind. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major