From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 11 6:54:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 058A637B423 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 06:54:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13YU2W-000MBI-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:54:28 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA70105 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:54:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:54:20 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: unrelated: mountpoints and backup strategies Message-ID: <20000911145420.B69890@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG First, for allowing user-mountable filesystems on a single-user system, does it not make more sense to mount them to points under the user's home directory rather than having to chmod the ones under /mnt every reboot? Also, does anyone know of a good backup strategy or program for zip drives? I don't have a tape, and i don't want to dump all of /etc and /home, since a lot of that would be unnecessary for a system restore, and also wastes time. So far, I dump the output of pkg_info to my home directory. I am also considering just building a list of paths and filenames and use this as arguments for tar and bzip. Does anyone have a better idea? jcm -- "I drank WHAT ?!" - Socrates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message