From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 7 6: 4:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.click2net.com (mail.click2net.com [216.94.59.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FAE614D12 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 06:04:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geoff@click2net.com) Received: from click2net.com (sparrow.click2net.com [216.94.59.226]) by mail.click2net.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA13801; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 09:05:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from geoff@click2net.com) Message-ID: <375BC386.2200B52A@click2net.com> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 09:05:10 -0400 From: Geoffrey Robinson Organization: Click2net inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vincent Poy Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: restoring a system References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vincent Poy wrote: > > Speaking about restoring a system, what is the easiest way of > moving everything from one machine to another? I think that generally doing comprehensive backups are harder than you would first think. From what I've read dump is probably the best for backing up a system but other things that may work are taring a file system over NFS or using a removable hard drive. -- Geoffrey Robinson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message