From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 1 11:38:30 2002 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 9FEB137B40E for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:38:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vms2.rit.edu (vms2.isc.rit.edu [129.21.3.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE3343E09 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:38:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu) Received: from dogbert ([129.21.131.177]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #40294) with ESMTPA id <01KJL1BLNGREKE8H9Y@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:38:06 EDT Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 14:38:47 -0400 From: Brian McCann Subject: Backup command/TAR To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <000201c2212e$8a24e080$2e00a8c0@dogbert> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal 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 Hi all. I'm writing a script to backup my system to a tar file, then it will get FTPd to our NAS box. My question is...what would you all do as far as a tar command to get this done? I was going to do: "tar -cvf /backup/day.tar /", with day being the day of the week. Any comments? Thanks in advance, --Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message