From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 18 16:45: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E28F37B408 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 54206 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2001 23:55:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO proxy.the-i-pa.com) (151.201.71.210) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 18 Sep 2001 23:55:01 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology To: "Todd Reed" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup Procedures Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:47:08 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01091819470801.00660@proxy.the-i-pa.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 18 September 2001 15:34, Todd Reed wrote: > How do others backup their system? I mean, do you kick off all users, deny > logins, or does the system get backed up while users are logged in and > working? > > What are the procedures? Depends on what you're talking about. Of all the file servers I'm running, I'm lucky that they all have considerable dead time during the night (i.e., nobody is working on them at night) so I just schedule the backup to run at 1:00 AM or so. The only server I have that gets used 24/7 is a MySQL db server, so for that I use the mysqldump command, which uses file locking to get a consistent backup of the data. Obviously, your needs may necessitate other measures. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services (412) 793-4257 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message