From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 9: 3:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [204.97.17.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9061137BF02 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 09:03:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (right/backatcha) with ESMTP id e4JG3VA08350; Fri, 19 May 2000 12:03:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 12:03:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson To: Jim Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making an Image/cloning a system In-Reply-To: <000c01bfc1a4$f1fb9fa0$852030d8@netquick.net> 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 > Greetings, Hi, Jim. > A way to clone the setup so we can continue to use it, and learn as we > grow. Use rsync. It's in the ports collection. I routinely back up hundreds of megabytes over a 33.6 modem with it. I recommend you use it with OpenSSH, which is also in the ports collection and has been incorporated into the base system of FreeBSD recently. The SSH protocol provides for encrypted transmission of your data, so it can't be sniffed. > A recommendation for a low cost tape Drive that will back up 10 > Gigabytes. I heard a salesman from Ecrix (www.ecrix.com) who talked a good talk, but I have no personal experience with their products. if you can convince them you're the right sort of "dot.com" I think they offer a discount of 20% or thereabouts. They used to, anyway. If "the setup" you'll be cloning is not just the hardware and system software but also the data, then perhaps a tape drive would be superfluous--if a clone died, you could just make another. -- Trevor Johnson http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message