From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 1 14:32:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA15373 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 14:32:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA15333 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 14:32:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emu.fsl.noaa.gov (kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.32]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA13871; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 21:32:04 GMT Message-Id: <199607012132.VAA13871@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.4/16.2) id AA141576770; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 15:32:50 -0600 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 15:32:50 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk Cc: jbrann@panix.com, JSINNOTT@pomona.edu, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607011407.OAA00915@jraynard.demon.co.uk> (message from James Raynard on Mon, 1 Jul 1996 14:07:03 GMT) Subject: Re: Shutdown MSGS Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "James" == James Raynard writes: James> Obviously it had started developing bad sectors and the James> first one happened to be in the swap partition. So if you James> ever see this message, start backing up immediately! No! Start backing up now! Seriously, any installation without a backup procedure is just asking for it. The standard Unix backup software (dump, restore) is one way to get started. Amanda is another. BRU is yet another. Even Micro$oft Windoze comes with a backup program; the fact that they expect you to backup to a hundred or so floppies is absurd. But, that's the PC market! -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/