From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 16 8:56:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.root-servers.ch (alpha.root-servers.ch [195.49.62.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5628337B9FA for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 08:56:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl-fbquestions@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 793 invoked from network); 16 May 2000 15:58:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ATHLON-550) (62.2.99.59) by ns1.root-servers.ch with SMTP; 16 May 2000 15:58:44 -0000 Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 17:57:27 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.42 Beta/19) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <10410598209.20000516175727@buz.ch> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup of FreeBSD .. In-reply-To: <012401bfbf47$1289d7b0$112821c4@sai.co.za> References: <012401bfbf47$1289d7b0$112821c4@sai.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Dave, Tuesday, May 16, 2000, 4:57:30 PM, you wrote: > Anyone have any good backup solutions for FreeBSD servers? > At the moment I'm manually uploading dns zone, passwd files etc to an ftp > server everyday...*bleh* > Even if I could setup some sort of automated ftp script that could run via a > cron job, that would be great 8-) What about mounting an NFS volume and do a simple cp? Or take a look at man scp, that should be scriptable quite easily plus it ensures that the data can't be read by normal people (paranoid as I am, I'd rather not say the NSA can't read it ;-). Best regards, Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message