From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 10 20:43:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-server1.tampabay.rr.com (smtp-server1.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.1.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F21237B718 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:43:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from meconlen@obfuscated.net) Received: from clarity (24129168hfc216.tampabay.rr.com [24.129.168.216]) by smtp-server1.tampabay.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f2B4hL016915; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:43:21 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael Conlen" To: "Matthew Rudderham" , Subject: RE: What Are Standard Procedures For System Backup Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 23:37:51 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-reply-to: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can dump with the -f filename option to dump to a file, then copy to the windows machine using the file transfer method of choice and burn to CD. -- Groove On Dude Michael Conlen Obfuscated Networking meconlen@obfuscated.net > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Matthew > Rudderham > Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 10:53 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: What Are Standard Procedures For System Backup > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message