From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 12: 1:30 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 1A32837B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:01:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 462C743FBF for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:01:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1CK1RrX002823; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:01:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E4AA817.7040902@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:01:27 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Henning Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: backup References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Brian Henning wrote: > 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? Yes, I do this all the time. You can treat your CVS repository just like any other tree of files for backup purposes. > I would also like to back up my mysql databases for the same reasons. can i tar > those up for later use? You can, but you should make sure that the MySQL server is shut down during backup or your database files could be in the middle of an update while you're backing up. Look in the MySQL docs for alternate methods (such as mysqldump) that don't have you backing up data while it's in use. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message