From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 27 13:50: 1 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 1F0B337B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:50:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.acecape.com (mail1.acecape.com [66.114.74.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBBFA43F5F for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:49:58 -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 h0RLnvJ7001377; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:49:58 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:01:26 -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: <20030127165947.J51500-100000@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: > gzip is more universally known that bzip2, so using it means that you > are more likely to be able to recover your data in an emergency, such > as on a non-BSD system. I have several FreeBSD machines that I administer in a couple of locations so I just copy my data to one of them. After I am done backing up my home machine will probably replicate the setup to the other machines and back them up to my home machine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message