From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jan 26 12: 5: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from joe.halenet.com.au (joe.halenet.com.au [203.37.141.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E297A14F27 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 12:05:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from donh@halenet.com.au) Received: from igor.freebsd.eckytech (modem-37-warw.halenet.com.au [203.55.33.37]) by joe.halenet.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAA03036; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:06:36 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from donh@halenet.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000126185729.2004.qmail@web218.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:07:34 +1000 (EST) Reply-To: donh@halenet.com.au Organization: EckTech Computing From: Don Hansford To: "Charles F. Dillon" Subject: RE: what to backup Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, "Charles F. Dillon" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 26-Jan-00 Charles F. Dillon wrote: > At the risk of sounding daft...what do you mean by data files? > > Does the kernel need to be backed up, maybe the config file? Data files = anything you've made since installing the OS; documents, web-pages etc. A handy thing to have on the system is "Mergemaster" (from the Ports Collection). It will help with comparing files afterwards. HTH Don Hansford Warwick, Queensland, AUSTRALIA (GMT+10) EckyTech Computing "Geeks-on-the-Run" Cruising the Web with FreeBSD I believe the technical term is "Oops!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message