From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 17 00:22:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA09833 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 00:22:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abc.xyz.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA09828 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 00:22:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) From: groggy@iname.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abc.xyz.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA02858; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 23:22:12 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 23:22:12 -0800 (AKDT) X-Sender: abc@abc.xyz.net To: "Oles' Hnatkevych" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backuping the system In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I need your advice. What is in your opinion the best ways to back up a > system? What hardware/software do you use and what software already exists personally, i have a script that copies all my config files to one directory. then i back up only that directory, and /etc. the rest of the system doesn't matter. it's not any tougher to reinstall packages compared to backing up from tape or whatever. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message