--- Hans Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The recent thread on backups put a guilt trip on me, and I > figure I ought to start backing up my home system. However I > haven't found a backup system I like. My modest requirements > are these: (at least, I think they're modest)
<snip> I've used a couple of different backup methodologies, with varying degrees of success: - I tried Mondo once, and it made me a nice set of CD-Rs, but the restore didn't work. That was a couple of years ago on Red Hat 7.3, the problem is probably fixed now (but I haven't tried it again). - I have an external hard drive, but I've never found a filesystem (other than FAT) that works with all of my operating systems. I suppose I should just format the thing in UFS2 (FreeBSD), attach it to the server and export it over NFS for access from my other BSD and Linux systems and my Powerbook. If I need to back anything up from my wife's Windows box, it's probably already on the server via Samba anyway, or I can use Knoppix and do it over NFS. - Much of the data that I need to back up is very static, and I have copies of most of it on DVD+R discs. I see no reason to back that data up repeatedly, although I probably would include it on the external hard drive. I see no reason at all to have my backup DVDs be bootable -- in fact, I'd rather not. I don't care about backing up FreeBSD, Tiger or Windows: I can reinstall those easily. The only things I really need backed up are user data, a few configuration files (DNS, DHCP, pf.conf, postfix, ...), and data from /var/mail, /var/db/mysql and /usr/local/www. I would love, on the other hand, to have a good way to produce a clean system image (something analogous to Ghost) for a FreeBSD installation, that I could use to quickly set up multiple more or less identical systems. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
