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Date:      Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:37:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Chris Phillips <chris@selkie.org>
To:        Sam Carleton <scarleton@miltonstreet.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: backing up a remote machine
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007180731140.4940-100000@shell.selkie.org>
In-Reply-To: <397465F4.DF9BCE64@miltonstreet.com>

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Using tar and then scp would be fine.  If you don't want to tar them up,
you could look into something like rsync http://rsync.samba.org/.  To
backup your MySQL db, you need to do a mysqldump.  It's a good thing to
cron.  For sendmail all that you should really need to back up is your
virtusertable, sendmail.cw and sendmail.cf if you have made any changes to
it.

-Chris Phillips

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Sam Carleton wrote:

> The FreeBSD machine that I have setup is now sitting in a server room
> that I do not have access to.  It is running a small domain.  How should
> I go about backing up the machine on a regular basis?  I do have other
> UNIX machines that have tape drives.  Is the best thing to tar the files
> up and send them over to the tape drive on the other machine via ssh?
> Or is there a better way?  What files should I be backing up for
> sendmail?  Anyone know if there is something special I need to do to
> backup MySQL databases?
> 
> Sam
> 
> 
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