From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 22 0:41:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 353BC37B424 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 00:41:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vedette by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13cNRR-000OEC-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:40:17 +0300 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:40:17 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a few questions... Message-ID: <20000922104017.D50352@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <003d01c02464$dd5d4260$da21bc40@tekrealm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <003d01c02464$dd5d4260$da21bc40@tekrealm.net>; from Elitetek on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 12:15:18AM -0700 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Accept-Language: en fr X-Editor: Pico http://www.washington.edu/pine X-Location: Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa X-Uptime: 10:23AM up 24 days, 23:13, 9 users, load averages: 0.22, 0.27, 0.33 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting Elitetek : [000922 10:14]: #>first, im using 4.1 release, what is the best way of doing #>routing/nat/firewall? i want to #>get this box as secure as possible. #> Get some idea from www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd and also www.freebsd.org/ - there is some place with doc on ip-forwarding #> #>second, im using a script file to tar selected directories for backup, and #>wanted #>to get some opinions #> #>for now im just backing up #> #>/root #>/etc #>/var #>/usr/local #>/sbin #>/usr/home #>/usr/src/sys/i386/conf #> Depends on where you have valuable stuff because som programs like qmail put so much on /var but again this will entirely rely on your partition scheme. They say that to be safe BACKUP EVERYTHING ;-) It is worth the effort. #>is there anything i should add or remove from that list? #>i want to have backups if my system should fail/and or is hacked #> #>i have all that getting tar'd into one file, and then its stored on a second #>drive on the system, and i also created a script to upload it to a few #>other computers fore redundancy It is good to keep your backups stashed safely outside the machine. -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi, KENYA Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 To fly, we have to have resistance. -Maya Lin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message