From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 12:22:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAEDE15717 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:22:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA28541; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:21:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:21:36 -0500 (EST) From: Adam To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FFS vs ext2fs (Was: Re: Not enough information) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dont need a tape. tar -zcvf ~/varbackup.tgz /var Probably takes about 10 seconds :) On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: >On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Adam wrote: > >>Backup. Backup. Backup. Backup. Backup. >> >>Backup. Test restoring. > >I will. As soon as someone donates a tape drive to me ;-) > >>On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: >>>Actually, once i made a mistake and ruined /var, including the package db, >>>and it screwed my system. I had no idea how to fix the packages. But >>>this was my fault. However, a way of recovering without reinstalling >>>would have been nice. > > >-=> jm <=- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message