From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 11:57:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kraeusen.nbrewer.com (kraeusen.nbrewer.com [208.42.68.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3E137B416 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:57:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 58B05B759; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:01:09 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:01:09 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Don Seeger Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backup Message-ID: <20011212140106.A12775@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Don Seeger , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <002201c18331$113c86a0$7100640a@et2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002201c18331$113c86a0$7100640a@et2> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN 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 Don Seeger (dseeger@mail.nwktc.org) wrote: > is there a port or package that you would recommend for backing up or mirroring the contents of one drive onto the other - trying to avoid tape usage if possible The mirroring solution is vinum, part of the FreeBSD base system. There's a rather good article on vinum at daemonnews: http://www.daemonnews.org/200111/vinum.html You could also use dump, also included in the base system, to output to a file rather than tape. Neither would be quite as good as regular tape backups (off-site storage, recovery of deleted files, etc.), but better than nothing! -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message