Re: System Backup help.

2003-10-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Micheal Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I realize that a lot of folks prefer dump / restore for system backups, however, to dump to tape, I would recommend using tar since that's what it does best. As long as the system sees the tape drive, tar -c / dumps everything to the tape drive.

System Backup help.

2003-10-26 Thread whizkid
I have been running BSD for a week or so now. I have everything setup just right, Webmail, DNS, IMAP, Webserver, etc I just install a DDS-2 tape drive, I have been reading about using dump for backing up filesystems. How can I use dump to backup the entire drive? If I try using: dump 0 -A

Re: System Backup help.

2003-10-26 Thread DavidB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been running BSD for a week or so now. I have everything setup just right, Webmail, DNS, IMAP, Webserver, etc I just install a DDS-2 tape drive, I have been reading about using dump for backing up filesystems. How can I use dump to backup the entire drive? If

Re: System Backup help.

2003-10-26 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 4:52 PM Subject: System Backup help. I have been running BSD for a week or so now. I have everything setup just right, Webmail, DNS, IMAP, Webserver, etc I just install a DDS-2