Re: Back up files...

2008-04-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
OK. Right. And what is exactly the command for restore? Something like "gunzip dumpfile.gz | restore rf dumpfile" gunzip -c or zcat Or what. Compressing is nice but the use of gzip is always a bit confusing to me. possibly because it is too simple ;) ___

Re: Back up files...

2008-04-09 Thread Ruel Luchavez
Hi to all, Thanks for your reply..I already solve it using third party software, which for me using it is much more easy... best regards.. On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:38:28PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > On Wed, 9 A

Re: Back up files...

2008-04-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:38:28PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:16:45 +0200 > Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What I would recommend is to buy a large harddisk with a USB > > connection and use that to store your backups. Make your backups with > > the dump(8

Re: Back up files...

2008-04-09 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:16:45 +0200 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I would recommend is to buy a large harddisk with a USB > connection and use that to store your backups. Make your backups with > the dump(8) command, and compress the dump using gzip(1). E.g. to > dump the root parti

Re: Back up files...

2008-04-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
For making backups to DVD you need growisofs(1). This is part of the sysutils/dvd+rw-tools port, which you'll need to install. unless it's DVD+R(W), then with dd or tar works. If you have a lot of data, using DVDs is impractical. not that, unless it's really >100GB

Re: Back up files...

2008-04-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:11:13AM +0800, Ruel Luchavez wrote: > Hello again... > > Guys could you teach me how to transfer files from server, I have back up my > files & i want > to transfer the back up files folder in my DVD CD to avoid disk consumption. For making back

Back up files...

2008-04-08 Thread Ruel Luchavez
Hello again... Guys could you teach me how to transfer files from server, I have back up my files & i want to transfer the back up files folder in my DVD CD to avoid disk consumption. Could you teach me step by step? Best regards:D ___ fre