From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 23 18:28:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA19285 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 18:28:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from phoenix.its.rpi.edu (dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu [128.113.161.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA19280 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 18:28:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dec@localhost) by phoenix.its.rpi.edu (8.8.4/8.8.3) id VAA03134 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 21:28:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 21:28:53 -0500 (EST) From: "David E. Cross" Message-Id: <199702240228.VAA03134@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: best way to back up? Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am curious as to what the "best" way is to back up to a 8mm tape on a different machine. I have found that (for me) tar seems to be the easiest to use, however, I can't get it to do an incremental backup, and it seems to choke on some of the "special" files in /dev. dump/rdump let you me do differential backups, but I can only do one per tape? -- David Cross ACS Consultant