From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 1 17:08:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA02977 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 17:08:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA02965 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 17:08:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id ae06330; 2 Jul 96 1:08 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa01603; 2 Jul 96 0:46 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA03416; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 22:58:15 GMT Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 22:58:15 GMT Message-Id: <199607012258.WAA03416@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov CC: jbrann@panix.com, JSINNOTT@pomona.edu, questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199607012132.VAA13871@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> (message from Sean Kelly on Mon, 1 Jul 1996 15:32:50 -0600) Subject: Re: Shutdown MSGS Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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! All right, all right, I knew I should have added the words "if you haven't already done so" :-) > 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. Agreed. Actually, my backup was a 420MB IDE drive, of which FreeBSD can only see 327MB (for reasons which no-one has been able to convincingly explain to me) - this is just big enough to hold backups of my CVS tree and home directory and a minimal FreeBSD install, but not enough to do any work :-( > 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! Not that absurd for those of us who can't afford several hundred pounds for a tape drive - in fact I'm backing up my ex-backup drive as I speak! -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/