Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 22:54:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Doug Young <dougy@brizzie.org> Cc: Peter Kok <cckok00@hotmail.com>, Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: simple back up method Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10105182248140.18536-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <001301c0e00a$d0c01d40$0300a8c0@oracle>
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Oh and RULE 2: When you need to do a restore it will be something really critical, and at a bad hour in the middle of the night. You wont be too with it, full of adrenaline and not necesarily able to MAN anything anyplace - so you should KNOW a restore command solidly so you can push thru the adrenaline spike, the hangover, the lack of sleep, whatever, and survive! If you dont - you will probably puke before its over. RULE 3: If you know how to do a restore backwards and forwards and are very comfortable with the whole thing - and you are religious about doing backups and checkin them - and have practiced restoring things and KNOW it works - you almost never have to actually DO a restore and when you do it is usually at a convenient time, for a file for a user that just nags alot that isnt really all that important anyway. On Sat, 19 May 2001, Doug Young wrote: > > > I thought dump was all or nothing - whereas I often need just some > files > > and the flexability of having them restore to a different place, or > to > > have everything BUT whats already there restore. > > > > yeah I got that impression too ..... however my immediate interest is > to > save the whole filesystem of remote mission-critical servers to > another > machine local to them so its a relatively simple task to rebuild them > quickly in case of disaster > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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