From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 9 20:05:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1EC16A4CF for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 20:05:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from alpargata.net (alpargata.net [67.18.172.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67C2943D4C for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 20:05:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nospam@illusionart.com) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (dsl081-061-217.dsl-isp.net [64.81.61.217] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by alpargata.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iA9KDTc9090501 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:13:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nospam@illusionart.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Vonleigh Simmons Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:05:05 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.75.1, clamav-milter version 0.75c on alpargata.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: What to back up? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 20:05:26 -0000 I'm about ready to upgrade to 5.3 from 5.2. I want to back up my system before I do. But what I'm not sure is, what exactly should I back up? I'm going to use this method, unless someone can suggest a better way (rsync + ssh): Vonleigh Simmons