From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 11:22:36 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA11871 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 11:22:36 -0800 Received: from precipice.shockwave.com (precipice.shockwave.com [171.69.108.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA11866 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 11:22:32 -0800 Received: (from pst@localhost) by precipice.shockwave.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA00370 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 11:21:47 -0800 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 11:21:47 -0800 From: Paul Traina Message-Id: <199511291921.LAA00370@precipice.shockwave.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: how do *YOU* do backups? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I scrogged my root partition the other day, and while it was pretty easy for me to recover it, I had the opportunity to reflect on the fact that I haven't been doing proper backups...so I went out and picked up a 2g tape drive. What I'm curious about is how people are chosing to do backups these days. I'm an old BSD fossil, so I've been using dump, which has its good sides and bad sides. Dump is patently stupid about determining things like the size of your dump media and the optimal blocksize to keep your tapes streaming because it was originally designed for 9 track drives. I see that gnu tar has some new "backup-like" features including multi-volume sets and incremental sets. Is anyone basing their backups on that? Does anyone have any other tools worth mentioning? Paul