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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news2.acs.oakland.edu!news.tacom.army.mil!ulowell.uml.edu!tribune.meitca.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!lf.net!ipro.de!jok From: jok@ipro.de (Jochen Knuth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Crash recovery Backup Date: 23 Jul 1996 13:53:28 GMT Organization: Ipro GmbH, 71229 Leonberg, Germany Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4t2lgp$87@news2.LF.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ipro.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi, i'm using FreeBSD 2.1.0R as an internet server for a little software company and want to know if there is an easy backup and restore procedure in a case of e.g. a HDD crash. we have a 1 GB SCSI IBM HDD and a 2 GB HP1533 DAT-Streamer i tried backing up the whole HDD with tar --create --file /dev/rst0 / and (after inserting a new HDD, installing a minimal FreeBSD system [only bin distribution]) i tried to restore the whole thing with tar --extract . at this moment i was logged in as root. after rebooting i wasn't able log in anymore :-((. Can anyone help me in finding a working backup/restore procedure? Thanx Jochen Knuth IPRO GmbH Leonberg, Germany http://www.ipro.de/