From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 20 13:46:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from email.accessus.net (email.accessus.net [209.145.128.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B177937B413 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:46:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@jwebmedia.com) Received: from [209.145.133.59] (account jkoenig@accessus.net HELO jwebmedia.com) by email.accessus.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.8) with ESMTP id 14269231 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 15:45:23 -0500 Message-ID: <3B817889.681AC1C5@jwebmedia.com> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 15:52:25 -0500 From: Joseph Koenig Reply-To: joe@jwebmedia.com Organization: jWeb New Media Design X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Unix Backup Options Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 I've been reading about backup options for Unix, and have found the standard dump, dd, tar and cpio options. Just wondering if these were the commonly used methods, or if there were better methods out there? Dump looks pretty useful, but it apparently works best when set up to follow an algorithm, which to me, looks difficult to implement via cron. Any opinions? Thanks, Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message