Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:36:31 -0700 From: Ted Cabeen <secabeen@pobox.com> To: "Thomas Dwyer" <tom@dwyers.ca> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disaster recovery Message-ID: <87vfww9c34.fsf@gray.impulse.net> In-Reply-To: <000e01c30f27$4065f230$020010ac@protechnologies> ("Thomas Dwyer"'s message of "Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:46:15 -0400") References: <000e01c30f27$4065f230$020010ac@protechnologies>
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"Thomas Dwyer" <tom@dwyers.ca> writes: > Hello > > We are in the final stages of a migration from Win2k to FreeBSD for Web Server and Email. > > Everything is ready for the big switchover. I would like some > advice on disaster recovery planning. What to use for remote backup > (tar?). And with a .tar file, is it possible to resore the /usr > partition over top of a clean FreeBSD install .. etc Use AMANDA. It's a nice system that uses FreeBSD's native dump and restore utilites to backup any number of UNIX machines to a central backup server with tape or disk. http://www.amanda.org or misc/amanda-server and misc/amanda-client in the ports tree. -- Ted Cabeen http://www.pobox.com/~secabeen ted@impulse.net Check Website or Keyserver for PGP/GPG Key BA0349D2 secabeen@pobox.com "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." -F. Bacon secabeen@cabeen.org "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."-T.S.Eliot cabeen@netcom.com
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