From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 10 19:53:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matt.MUNICH.v-net.org (u57n248.syd.eastlink.ca [24.222.57.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA14F37B719 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:53:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@cape-breton-island.com) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by matt.MUNICH.v-net.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA25450 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:53:28 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from matt@cape-breton-island.com) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:53:28 -0400 (AST) From: Matthew Rudderham X-Sender: matt@matt.MUNICH.v-net.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: What Are Standard Procedures For System Backup 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 Hi, I currently administer my FreeBSD 4.0-Release box mostly via SSH since the monitor died. I was recently looking into doing a CVSup of my sources and it of course recommended a full backup. Up until now, I'm not proud to say I've never completed one. What are the standard procedures for backing up a FreeBSD System? I have read the handbook sections, however they seem to only adress tape backup methods, which unfortunately isn't useful to me. I have a Win machine on my network with a cd burner, and this would be my preferred method, or a tarball that could be stored on another machine on the network would also be an option that I could add to my cron I suppose? Thanks for the help. - Matt Rudderham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message