Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:35:15 -0500 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie: weekly tape backup advice Message-ID: <3EF73A53.4010604@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <20030623172734.M94864@enabled.com> References: <20030623172734.M94864@enabled.com>
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admin wrote: >Hi, > >I need some help setting up a tape backup system. I have two FreeBSD machines >and on external SCSI Onstream ADR50. Got any clues how I can start a weekly >back up plan here? > >Thanks in advance, > >Noah > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > The key would be, a tape a day? Just kidding. If you ca fit it all on one tape, and it's not a long backup - why not do a full backup apposed to some sort of incremental one. A cron once a day should do the trick (man cron and man crontab) and I would think using dump (man dump) would also do the archiving. -- Best regards, Chris ______________________________________________________________________ PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09 0F93 FF80 C01B C363 PGP Mail encouraged / preferred - keys available on common key servers ______________________________________________________________________ 01010010011000010110001101100101011100100101100000000000
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