From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 27 13: 6:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6530037B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:06:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.acecape.com (mail1.acecape.com [66.114.74.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B778143E4A for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:06:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@natserv.com) Received: from p65-147.acedsl.com (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mail1.acecape.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0RL6hJ7017134; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:06:45 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:18:12 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes X-X-Sender: fran@zoraida.natserv.net To: Paul Hoffman Cc: Mike Meyer , FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Which files and directories to backup? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030127161608.B49755-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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