From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 4 0:33:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C27237B406 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 00:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 44129 invoked by uid 100); 4 Oct 2001 07:33:36 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15292.4304.248732.434299@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 02:33:36 -0500 To: "Diane Vanthoff" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best backup program In-Reply-To: <117305773@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Diane Vanthoff 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. 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