From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 10:38:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boris.st.hmc.edu (boris.ST.HMC.Edu [134.173.63.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD50737B416 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:38:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from boredom (dickie.ST.HMC.Edu [134.173.63.135]) by boris.st.hmc.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g3OHcpd94322 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:38:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff@boris.st.hmc.edu) Message-ID: <002701c1ebb6$7439e110$873fad86@boredom> From: "Jeff Jirsa" To: References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020424115825.046c3630@us-webmasters.com> Subject: Re: Scheduled auto backup using FTP? Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:35:40 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 > Has anyone backed up their entire system using FTP? I tried doing > it manually using WS_FTP, and it kept dying when it got to > alias directories. > > Any ideas on how to get around the aliases? Automate the > transfer? Only backup changed files? > Try tar'ring it first, into a single archive, and then ftp that archive wherever you want? - Jeff ================= Jeff Jirsa HMC Unix Admin jjirsa@hmc.edu ================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message