From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 11:48:56 2003 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 6068A37B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:48:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (oe54.law12.hotmail.com [64.4.18.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D349543FAF for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:48:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from b1henning@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:48:54 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [192.216.212.193] From: "Brian Henning" To: "freebsd" Subject: backup Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:47:42 -0600 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 6.00.2800.1106 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Feb 2003 19:48:54.0686 (UTC) FILETIME=[C64E03E0:01C2D2CF] 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 Hello- I would like to backup my cvs repository in case my system goes down or incase i want to move the repository. can i tar up the files in the root directory and save it on a cd? I would also like to back up my mysql databases for the same reasons. can i tar those up for later use? thanks, brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message