From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 12:32:57 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA17785 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 12:32:57 -0800 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA17779 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 12:32:52 -0800 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id PAA10316; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:22:48 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:22:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: how do *YOU* do backups? To: Paul Traina cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511291921.LAA00370@precipice.shockwave.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, Paul Traina wrote: > 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. which 2gb tape drive....i am also in the market. > 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. dump....dump....dump.....read elizabeth zwicky's paper on torture testing backup programs. dump's defaults are dump^Hb but the damn thing just keeps working. the paper is at ftp.sage.usenix.org/pub/usenix dont remember which directory ;(( Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG