Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 02:33:36 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Diane Vanthoff" <diane@toadshow.com.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best backup program Message-ID: <15292.4304.248732.434299@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <117305773@toto.iv>
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Diane Vanthoff <diane@toadshow.com.au> types: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please don't send HTML to this list. Even more importantly, don't send two copies of the message to the list! > - ------=_NextPart_000_00A3_01C14CAF.1E070990 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi, > > Just wondering what the best backup program for freebsd is? > > We would like to do a full system backup of our 2 free bsd servers. > > Should we use: dump/restore, tar, cpio, pax, amanda, or something else? As mentioned in a recent thread on cp & pax; tar, cpio and pax all lose a files flags. This isn't acceptable for a backup program. Amanda is a networked backup system, and overkill if you've only got a couple of boxes you want to backup. In that case, use dump. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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