Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:18:12 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1044055669.3fadd8@mired.org>, FreeBSD Questions List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Which files and directories to backup? Message-ID: <20030127161608.B49755-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> In-Reply-To: <p05210207ba5b0be79b07@[165.227.249.18]>
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On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Paul Hoffman wrote: > before I do a major upgrade. I then shove the backup offsite via ftp. I have not been sending the files out, but working on that. First will encryp the files with gpg (GNU privacy) and then will use scp to send the files out. I don't have FTP enabled on any of the, very few, machines I admin. > Much of what you are backing up is quite compressable, so you should > most likely be using 'tar -czf' instead of just 'tar -cf' I don't recall posting the line I use to run tar, but I use bzip2 instead of gzip so it's something like 'tar -cyf ....' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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