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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.ultranet.com!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!genmagic!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Backing up the whole 9 yards...??? Message-ID: <id.SCRM1.LNA@nmti.com> Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva) Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI References: <DDHIzE.25r@agora.rdrop.com> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 02:15:26 GMT Lines: 40 In article <DDHIzE.25r@agora.rdrop.com>, Craig Keenan <sundans@agora.rdrop.com> wrote: > 1) What is the simplest AND most complete way of backing up an ENTIRE > filesystem, so that in the case of something disastrous, Joe User would > at least have a nice mirror of his system xx days ago. Also, what is the > best way to perform a recovery from ground 0 (maybe a good > backup-recovery floppy would be good here?? There's an idea...). Use "dump" and "restore". A recovery floppy that just includes a kernel and enough stuff to mount and restore should be easy enough to make. DAT is good enough and cheap enough for most people's home systems. I wouldn't mess with the Colorado type systems. The ones that are big enough to be worth messing with cost as much as a cheap DAT. > 2) What seems to be the best philosophies for different types of systems > (ie. Joe's home-piss-around-with-Doom system, slightly critical systems > like maybe an ISP user database, and super-critical like Barney Clark's > Artifical Heart GUI Interface [running FreeBSD -stable, of course]). > I've heard of full backups every week, with 4-hourly incrementals; every > month full backups only; and lotsa other schemes. Daily backups are ideal. I backup to 60M cartridges at home, so what I get are monthly backups. It takes all day to run fulls, so I usually only full one partition each time. I want a DAT for Xmas. > 3) Is there any good free package out there that can automate a large > percentage of this, or does it usually boil down to each and every user > tailoring his own backup script? AMANDA, from the University of Maryland, by James da Silva (no relation). No contest. -- Peter da Silva (NIC: PJD2) `-_-' 1601 Industrial Boulevard Bailey Network Management 'U` Sugar Land, TX 77487-5013 +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?" USA Bailey pays for my technical expertise. My opinions probably scare them