From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 12 10:29:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23701 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 10:29:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from newsguy.com (perry.co.pathlink.com [207.211.168.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23696 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 10:29:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reyesf@newsguy.com) Received: (from reyesf@localhost) by newsguy.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA10956; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 10:28:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199809121728.KAA10956@newsguy.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSD questions" Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 13:28:56 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 95 (4.0.1111) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Methods for complete backups? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I backup my data as follows: Daily tar to floppy for important configuration files 2 to 3 times a week tar to tape for full (trying excluding some unneeded things) Once a week dump to tape. I did both tar and dump partly as an exercise to learn them both. What I would like to know is which is best to recover completely from a crash? What I am looking for is a way to bring back a "minimal" Freebsd box and use the tape to bring me back to the last backup state. Any good commercial/free/shareware software that would create a boot floppy as to not even need to install a minimal freebsd to restore? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message