From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 0:14: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athena.unlimitedweb.net (athena.unlimitedweb.net [63.126.245.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6044237B402 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 00:13:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from 9000a (bender-rcc.resnet.uni.edu [134.161.64.15]) by athena.unlimitedweb.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA21508 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:13:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bierblb@netins.net) From: "Brent" To: Subject: make world and a mirror type backup Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 02:12:59 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey everyone! I have a couple different questions, and I thought I would try them in the same email. First, I have been running FreeBSD for some years now, but never really had to update the source, because I usually could just rebuild the machine. Now that I have to, after I cvsup the src, are there any easy steps to take to update with the least amount of problems and downtime? I also am away from the machine, so I was wondering if I could do this remotely. I did read about make world, but what does that command actually do? Second, I would like to have a working backup of the server with all of its files over to another machine like a mirror. It doesn't have to be a live copy. Could update overnight. Has anyone got this to work successively, and if so with what program? Is rdist a good option for this? Please send any replies cc to bierblb@netins.net since I am not on the list. Thanks a lot in advance for your help! Brent Bierstedt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message