From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 29 8:21:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sticky.usu.edu (sticky.usu.edu [129.123.1.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D7A21522B for ; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 08:21:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hal@sticky.usu.edu) Received: from [129.123.1.184] (buffy.usu.edu [129.123.1.184]) by sticky.usu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AFDD3482B; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:21:23 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:21:23 -0700 To: FreeBSDQuestions From: hal Lynch Subject: RE: dump / backups Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Looking for peoples comments on using dump as a backup utility. >Good? Bad? Alternatives? And what tape drives people have had good fortune >with. Been using dump for backups for years on a variety of unices and tape drives. Works just fine. On FreeBSD 3.0 I am using a Seagate 4mm SCSI DAT drive. I backup my 3.1 system over the network to the 3.0 system using rdump. Works just fine. I can say 'works just fine' because I have had the opportunity to restore from the backups I have made, both full volume and single file. The interactive restore is very nice. hal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message