On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Paul Hoffman wrote: > before I do a major upgrade. I then shove the backup offsite via ftp.
I have not been sending the files out, but working on that. First will encryp the files with gpg (GNU privacy) and then will use scp to send the files out. I don't have FTP enabled on any of the, very few, machines I admin. > Much of what you are backing up is quite compressable, so you should > most likely be using 'tar -czf' instead of just 'tar -cf' I don't recall posting the line I use to run tar, but I use bzip2 instead of gzip so it's something like 'tar -cyf ....' To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
