Re: mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 3/13/06, Carlos Silva, yourdot-internet.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have my email stored at a reseller account (via imap) on a server. > My intention is that my server at home, download all the emails via imap > to backup automatically everyday. >

mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread Carlos Silva, yourdot-internet.com
Hello, I have my email stored at a reseller account (via imap) on a server. My intention is that my server at home, download all the emails via imap to backup automatically everyday. But, I dont want that my server download repeated messages (because i have thousands of emails...). Someone has a

mail backup solution?

2006-03-13 Thread Carlos Silva, yourdot-internet.com
Hello, I have my email stored at a reseller account (via imap) on a server. My intention is that my server at home, download all the emails via imap to backup automatically everyday. But, I dont want that my server download repeated messages (because i have thousands of emails...). Someone

Re: Tape backup / Bizzare Device Question

2006-03-07 Thread DAve
Graham Bentley wrote: Is there a way to create a hdd resore solution with set of boot floppies that will support my tape drive access the tape and restore the entire hard disc in case of disc failure disaster ? ie So I could install a new disc and be up and running without doing any additional

Re: Tape backup / Bizzare Device Question

2006-03-07 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:09:40PM -, Graham Bentley wrote: > > Description: Glass bulb, similar to light bulb but with > narrow end flared at bootom so it standsup. Inside, > a rotating wire device that has 4 squares of card like > material attached, like vanes. > > One one side they are

Tape backup / Bizzare Device Question

2006-03-07 Thread Graham Bentley
Is there a way to create a hdd resore solution with set of boot floppies that will support my tape drive access the tape and restore the entire hard disc in case of disc failure disaster ? ie So I could install a new disc and be up and running without doing any additional admin? I guess like a 'g

Re: Backup softwares ?

2006-03-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
Frank Bonnet wrote: > Frank Bonnet wrote: >> Hello >> >> I'm searching for a professional backup software that runs with >> FreeBSD 6.x >> it will drive an Overland library and would have an ergonomical >> graphical interface >> as the person who

Re: Backup softwares ?

2006-03-01 Thread Frank Bonnet
Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm searching for a professional backup software that runs with FreeBSD 6.x it will drive an Overland library and would have an ergonomical graphical interface as the person who will use it will not be a computer freak :-) also the easy restoring capabilities

Backup softwares ?

2006-03-01 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I'm searching for a professional backup software that runs with FreeBSD 6.x it will drive an Overland library and would have an ergonomical graphical interface as the person who will use it will not be a computer freak :-) also the easy restoring capabilities would be a plus. ther

Re: Remote backup solutions

2006-02-09 Thread David Stanford
t; Didnt try it myself, planning to test it soon... > > They have a windows client from what they say... > > > > At 17:25 2006-02-07, Göran Nilsson wrote: > > >Hi all. > > >Im looking for som software (opensource) that's scalable to to plenty > of >

Re: Remote backup solutions

2006-02-08 Thread Göran Nilsson
nning to test it soon... > They have a windows client from what they say... > > At 17:25 2006-02-07, Göran Nilsson wrote: > >Hi all. > >Im looking for som software (opensource) that's scalable to to plenty of > >remote backups over the Internet. The idea about this i

Re: Remote backup solutions

2006-02-07 Thread Ian Lord
over the Internet. The idea about this is offering small companys to do theire backup to a remote distance, and don't have to concern that much about it. The companys servers are generally NT 4.0 Server up to Windows2003. The backup system should be based on a FreeBSD 6.0 system. In the be

Remote backup solutions

2006-02-07 Thread Göran Nilsson
Hi all. Im looking for som software (opensource) that's scalable to to plenty of remote backups over the Internet. The idea about this is offering small companys to do theire backup to a remote distance, and don't have to concern that much about it. The companys servers are generally NT

RE: Quick, simple backup solution

2005-12-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joe Wood >Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 9:16 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Quick, simple backup solution > > >I am looking for a quick backup solution for my freebsd >machine. Currently I >backup to a DDS-4 DAT drive using the followin

Re: Quick, simple backup solution

2005-12-25 Thread Teo De Las Heras
Lowell, Great Site!! Thanks... http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/systuff On 23 Dec 2005 15:29:41 -0500, Lowell Gilbert < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Joe Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am looking for a quick backup solution for my freebsd machine

Re: Quick, simple backup solution

2005-12-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Joe Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am looking for a quick backup solution for my freebsd machine. Currently I > backup to a DDS-4 DAT drive using the following while in "/": > > > > tar -cf /dev/sa0 -I /root/includes -X /root/excludes . &g

Quick, simple backup solution

2005-12-23 Thread Joe Wood
I am looking for a quick backup solution for my freebsd machine. Currently I backup to a DDS-4 DAT drive using the following while in "/": tar -cf /dev/sa0 -I /root/includes -X /root/excludes . I am aware of bacula, Amanda, cpio, and dump but to me tar is the ideal method so if

Quick, simple backup solution

2005-12-23 Thread Joe Wood
I am looking for a quick backup solution for my freebsd machine. Currently I backup to a DDS-4 DAT drive using the following while in "/": tar -zpcvf /dev/sa0 . I am aware of bacula, Amanda, cpio, and dump but to me tar is the ideal method so if anyone had a simple script to aut

Best configuration for backup home network ...

2005-12-09 Thread Kiffin Gish
I'm considering using either Amanda or Bacula (don't know which yet) to run backups for my home network, consisting of a number of windows and freebsd machines connected together with Samba. Nothing too complicated, economic, pretty basic stuff really. What is the best tapetype, tape drive, hardwa

Veritas backup exec with ralus (remote agent for linux and unix servers)

2005-12-04 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, Does anyone managed to install ralus and make it works on freebsd ? We have a veritas backup exec server that backups all of the m$ servers and we would like to backup freebsd servers from the same location.. Veritas (now symantec) doesnt supports freebsd but supports linux... I

Re: Backup scheme

2005-11-19 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Lowell Gilbert [2005-11-19 08:58 -0500] > Svein Halvor Halvorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : > > So I've got 1-6 working. This gived my a space efficient backup system, > > remotely stored. As to pt. 7, I was thinking of using NFS, but since the > > r

Re: Backup scheme

2005-11-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Svein Halvor Halvorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm in the process of employing the following backup scheme: > > 1) Take a snapshot using mksnap_ffs > 2) Mount the snapshot > 3) rsync the mounted snapshot to a remote server > 4) Unmount and delete local snapsho

Backup scheme

2005-11-18 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
I'm in the process of employing the following backup scheme: 1) Take a snapshot using mksnap_ffs 2) Mount the snapshot 3) rsync the mounted snapshot to a remote server 4) Unmount and delete local snapshot 5) Take a new snapshot on the remote computer 6) Rotate old snapshots 7) Somehow expor

Re: Upgrading to 6.0 - Would this backup strategy work?

2005-11-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Richard Collyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm thinking of upgrading my 5.4 box to 6.0 mainly becuase I've never done > a buildworld I've always installed a fresh. The box is not production > quality just something for me to learn BSD on. > > I have a 7006-2 3ware raid controller miroring on

Upgrading to 6.0 - Would this backup strategy work?

2005-11-10 Thread Richard Collyer
Hello, I'm thinking of upgrading my 5.4 box to 6.0 mainly becuase I've never done a buildworld I've always installed a fresh. The box is not production quality just something for me to learn BSD on. I have a 7006-2 3ware raid controller miroring on 2 drives. If I was to remove one of the drives a

Re: backup strategies

2005-11-01 Thread Csaba Henk
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 02:37:32PM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: > Not quite: NetBSD also features softupdates and also supports snapshots > (though I don't know how stable it is, as I've never tried it on my > NetBSD system). The snapshot interface under NetBSD is different from That's also good to

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 13:53 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 31), Paul Mather said: > > The other thing to note about FreeBSD snapshots that I don't think > > has been mentioned is that they are only supported on UFS2 > > filesystems, meaning they are unavailable under FreeBSD 4.

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 31), Paul Mather said: > The other thing to note about FreeBSD snapshots that I don't think > has been mentioned is that they are only supported on UFS2 > filesystems, meaning they are unavailable under FreeBSD 4.x and > earlier (or on older filesystems created by those old

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Mather
from that on FreeBSD: you can create a snapshot "device" that can be used to snapshot a file system. (You can then mount or dump the snapshot device to get a consistent image/backup of the filesystem being snapshotted.) The main difference appears to be you are not limited to snapshots resi

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Csaba Henk
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:32:02AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: > The online manual mentions it in 16.13. Wouldn't hurt for it to be in > the man page as well. Oh, yeah, thanks. This makes things clear. I missed this somehow. > AFAIK FreeBSD 5.0+. Other *BSD as well, i believe... but someone els

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Eric Schuele
Csaba Henk wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:40:16AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: How do snapshots work and how do they provide the consistency necessary for a dump? [...] SoftUpdates are required on the filesystem. This sounds beautiful. I am amazed. I knew of softupdates, but they were a

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Csaba Henk
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:40:16AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: > How do snapshots work and how do they provide the consistency necessary > for a dump? [...] > > SoftUpdates are required on the filesystem. This sounds beautiful. I am amazed. I knew of softupdates, but they were always a shady corn

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Eric Schuele
Csaba Henk wrote: Thanks for all the tips and answers, I will consider the mentioned alternatives. Yet I have one more question... On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 01:22:35PM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: dump(8) will create a snapshot of a live filesystem, dump the snapshot and then remove the snapshot,

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Csaba Henk
Thanks for all the tips and answers, I will consider the mentioned alternatives. Yet I have one more question... On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 01:22:35PM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: > dump(8) will create a snapshot of a live filesystem, dump the snapshot > and then remove the snapshot, if given the cor

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-30 Thread Winelfred G. Pasamba
BackupPC http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&q=backuppc+freebsd On 10/31/05, albi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:49:02 +0100 > Csaba Henk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We plan to set up a backup server. > --

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-30 Thread albi
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:49:02 +0100 Csaba Henk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We plan to set up a backup server. -- cut -- > 1) What parts are to be backed up? If I backup the whole system, the > backup disk will get full soon. incremental backups via a script called from cron s

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-30 Thread Eric Schuele
Martin Hepworth wrote: Hi On 10/30/05, Csaba Henk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! We plan to set up a backup server. While the basic backup procedure is clear -- use some archiving utility like dump, tar, or cpio and send data to the backup server via ssh or a network mount -- there ar

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-30 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi On 10/30/05, Csaba Henk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > We plan to set up a backup server. > > While the basic backup procedure is clear -- use some archiving utility > like dump, tar, or cpio and send data to the backup server via ssh or a > network m

backup strategies

2005-10-30 Thread Csaba Henk
Hi! We plan to set up a backup server. While the basic backup procedure is clear -- use some archiving utility like dump, tar, or cpio and send data to the backup server via ssh or a network mount -- there are many details which are unclear for me. The two biggest problems are: 1) What parts

Multi-tape backup with "dump"

2005-10-17 Thread Henric Jungheim
licitly *does* work (although I've only tried forcing small tape sizes). The system I have now is from a make buildworld/make buildkernel from yesterday, but I've never had a multi-tape backup work (going back many months of tracking -current). Until now, it has always been faster to clean u

Re: Looking for recommendations for external USB2.0 tape backup

2005-10-17 Thread Lee Capps
At 14:04 Fri 14 Oct 2005, Gayn Winters wrote: > > -Original Message- > > > > My boss has asked me to try to find a tape-backup solution > > for our largely > > FreeBSD network of machines and I'm not having a lot of luck, > > so I was hoping

RE: Looking for recommendations for external USB2.0 tape backup

2005-10-14 Thread Gayn Winters
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of daniel > Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 12:20 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Looking for recommendations for external USB2.0 tape backup > > > My boss ha

Re: Looking for recommendations for external USB2.0 tape backup

2005-10-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > My boss has asked me to try to find a tape-backup solution for our largely > FreeBSD network of machines and I'm not having a lot of luck, so I was hoping > for some enlightend pointers from the list. > > We need the following features: > 20GB+ capacit

Looking for recommendations for external USB2.0 tape backup

2005-10-14 Thread daniel
My boss has asked me to try to find a tape-backup solution for our largely FreeBSD network of machines and I'm not having a lot of luck, so I was hoping for some enlightend pointers from the list. We need the following features: 20GB+ capacity USB 2.0 External < $600CDN Unfor

Re: Incremental backup!

2005-10-08 Thread Cristi Tauber
Ian Moore wrote: On Saturday 08 October 2005 16:07, Carstea Catalin wrote: i want to back-up on cd my www -directory. i want to use for this, cd -media. At some intervals i want to make incremental backup and put the result on cd. . i use kde and i want a grafical tool for

Re: Incremental backup!

2005-10-08 Thread Ian Moore
On Saturday 08 October 2005 16:07, Carstea Catalin wrote: > i want to back-up on cd my www -directory. i want to use for this, cd > -media. At some intervals i want to make incremental backup and put the > result on cd. . > i use kde and i want a grafical tool for wr

Incremental backup!

2005-10-08 Thread Carstea Catalin
i want to back-up on cd my www -directory. i want to use for this, cd -media. At some intervals i want to make incremental backup and put the result on cd. . i use kde and i want a grafical tool for write cd. . if u have one solution for my

Re: Backup

2005-09-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi list, > > can I make a copy using dd command from a HD scsi > Maxtor 36 GB to a HD IDE Sansung 40 GB ? You can, but you probably do not want to. Although you don't say much about what you are trying to do, I am guessing you want to "duplicate" the 36 GB disk on the 40 GB drive. Since

Re: Backup

2005-09-26 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Aguiar Magalhaes wrote: Hi list, can I make a copy using dd command from a HD scsi Maxtor 36 GB to a HD IDE Sansung 40 GB ? How can I do it ?? Is there an example ?? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK __

Backup

2005-09-26 Thread Aguiar Magalhaes
Hi list, can I make a copy using dd command from a HD scsi Maxtor 36 GB to a HD IDE Sansung 40 GB ? How can I do it ?? Is there an example ?? Thanks, Aguiar ___ Novo Yahoo! Messenger com voz: ligações, Ya

220.backup-bsdlabels (WAS: Re: periodic(8) / daily bsdlabel / fdisk / softraid*)

2005-09-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
otating. And lines 42 and 44 are just ugly. Also, do non-i386/amd64 platforms support fdisk(8)? I know NetBSD uses sunlabel(8)+disklabel(8) on Sparc64? But this does what I need it to do. Given a solid off-site tape backup of /var, I can recover /var/backup/(fdisk|disklabel) to a temp ma

tape backup coredump

2005-09-06 Thread Michael Sherman
Good morning all. I am having a problem with my tape drive, which gives me a coredump when I try to "bsdtar" any directory. The gtar doesn't, however it exits with an error message. I was wondering if anyone had similar issues. I am running 5.3 release, with the GENERIC kernel, only it was recomp

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-31 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Garance A Drosihn [2005-08-30 12:50 -0400] > Fwiw, I understand the problem you're trying to describe. And the > basic issue is that rsync keeps no information between separate > runs of it. It has no way of knowing that a given file on the > source volume used to be at a different locatio

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-31 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
> > for me to have more full backups laying around. > > A snapshot on the same disk does not qualify as a reliable backup of > your data. Using rsync to copy a tree of stuff to another machine > would. Please read the entire thread. I use rsync to mirror my disks remotely,

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
gt; > snapshots; > > for me to have more full backups laying around. > > A snapshot on the same disk does not qualify as a reliable backup of > your data. No, but it is convenient to restore from, when it's intact. This is actually a very common case; accidental file deleti

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-30 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:32 AM +0200 8/30/05, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: The solution: Somehow, I need to mirror all the move ops on the remote system before doing the rsync. This could probably be done by making a hash table of inodes/filenames pairs (or triplets, etc) each time i sync. Then the next time, I c

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-30 Thread Charles Swiger
same disk does not qualify as a reliable backup of your data. Using rsync to copy a tree of stuff to another machine would. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-30 Thread Greg Barniskis
e two snapshots, didn't change much at all, but the effect remains: my disk cannot longer store two snapshots (unless the backup disk is twice as large, which it is not). The solution: Somehow, I need to mirror all the move ops on the remote system before doing the rsync. This could probably

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Svein Halvor Halvorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Only I thought I'd keep a list of > filename/inode pairs from each sync, so before I do a sync I could compare > the lists to find out which files appears to be the same, only with a new > name. Doesn't dump

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-30 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Bob Johnson [2005-08-29 12:44 -0400] > Use a ggated(8) + ggatec(8) pair to establish a remote volume that > looks local, then use gmirror to make it a mirror of the local drive. > > The big gotcha is that ggated/c only moves i/o requests and data via > the net, it doesn't move ioctls, so s

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-30 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Norberto Meijome [2005-08-30 02:14 +1000] > I take your word wrt to how it works. Assuming of course that you move > within the same filesystem. Yes, I'm talking about the same filsystem. > (touche). yup, that's what would happenbut tha's the nature of the beast > :) don't keep too m

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-30 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
marked "in use", and therefore take up alot of diskspace. In reality the information change between the two snapshots, didn't change much at all, but the effect remains: my disk cannot longer store two snapshots (unless the backup disk is twice as large, which it is not). The solu

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-29 Thread Greg Barniskis
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: But: If I move the file from /foo/test to /bar/test on my main computer, rsync will create a BRAND NEW FILE in /bar (and delete the file in /foo, since I used the --delete option). Now this NEW file will have a new inode, and cover new sectors on disk. The snapsho

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-29 Thread Bob Johnson
On 8/29/05, Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > > * Norberto Meijome [2005-08-30 00:32 +1000] > I guess the proper way to do this (if you are REALLY REALLY worried > about that extra spaced used for snapshots in the remote site) would be > to implement a

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-29 Thread Norberto Meijome
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: * Norberto Meijome [2005-08-30 00:32 +1000] isn't that the whole point of having a backup? to have *another* copy of your files? Well, yes and no. The idea is that I have a main computer that I want to backup. I want the backup to be (a) remot

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Svein Halvor Halvorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Svein Halvor Halvorsen [2005-08-28 23:53 +0200] > > Does this sound reasonable? Is there any precautions I should take? Are > > there any other tools better suited for the task at hand? > > > I'm responding to my own message. > > Let's s

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-29 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Hornet [2005-08-29 11:11 -0400] > cat /usr/ports/sysutils/rsnapshot/pkg-descr It seems this is just a wrapper around the tools I was already planning on using. In this regard, it's a nice port. But won't this perl-script suffer for tha same shortcommings that rsync will? Or does it use rsy

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-29 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Norberto Meijome [2005-08-30 00:32 +1000] > isn't that the whole point of having a backup? to have *another* copy of your > files? Well, yes and no. The idea is that I have a main computer that I want to backup. I want the backup to be (a) remote, (b) incremental and (c) random

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-29 Thread Hornet
would create new files on the remote machine, and when I then take a > > snapshot there, it will be HUGE! > > isn't that the whole point of having a backup? to have *another* copy of > your files? > > and I guess that yes, if the files are new in the remote system, when

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-29 Thread Norberto Meijome
music from /music/artist - album/ to /music/artist/album. Even though a local snapshot would handle this well, rsync would create new files on the remote machine, and when I then take a snapshot there, it will be HUGE! isn't that the whole point of having a backup? to have *another* copy

rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-29 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Svein Halvor Halvorsen [2005-08-28 23:53 +0200] > Does this sound reasonable? Is there any precautions I should take? Are > there any other tools better suited for the task at hand? I'm responding to my own message. Let's say I happen to move all music from /music/artist - album/ to /musi

backup w/ snapshots

2005-08-28 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
I'm thinking about using snapshots as a kind of backup-mechanism, in order to restore accidentally deleted files. Also, in order to avoid losing data in case of a fire, etc., I'd like to store the backup off-site. I'm thinking about using rsync to syncronize the relevant fil

Re: backup and restore mysql

2005-08-27 Thread bob self
Carstea Catalin wrote: how to backup and restore mysql databases? to backup: # mysqldump --opt -u root -p -A >dbs.sql to restore: mysql> source dbs.sql; ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: backup and restore mysql

2005-08-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:04:26 -0700 Carstea Catalin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how to backup and restore mysql databases? man mysqldump http://dev.mysql.com/doc/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: backup and restore mysql

2005-08-27 Thread fci
On 8/27/05, Carstea Catalin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how to backup and restore mysql databases? http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysqldump.html most relevent part of it ( you will need to do -u$username -p$password to login: - - snip - - The most common use of mysqldump is pro

backup and restore mysql

2005-08-27 Thread Carstea Catalin
how to backup and restore mysql databases? -- Any help would be greatly appreciated. regards, Carstea Catalin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Backup to CD-R

2005-08-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:36:03AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > a3bm() { > > Hi! I was wondering if somebody can give me a clue to how to > schedulle regular backups to CD-R. I'm using FreeBSD 5.3. If your dumps are so small they will fit on CD-R, you could do the following: - make a du

Backup to CD-R

2005-08-18 Thread imnotmork_listas
a3bm() { Hi! I was wondering if somebody can give me a clue to how to schedulle regular backups to CD-R. I'm using FreeBSD 5.3. By now, i can asume that the best choice is to use 'dump' but i can't realize how to use the CD-R as a 'writeable' device. F. } -- Key fingerprint = 7A 81

Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM

2005-08-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jonathon McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:54:23AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > : You should be able to fixate the disk and still add more sessions > : later, shouldn't you? It will waste a little space, but not horrible > : amounts... > > I can give this a sh

Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM

2005-08-17 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:54:23AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : > I found a post from last November with a small script for backing up to CD-ROM : > with sessions. : > : > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064

Re: Nightly backup using CD-ROM

2005-08-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jonathon McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I found a post from last November with a small script for backing up to CD-ROM > with sessions. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064117.html > > My question is how can I access the data on the CD between backu

Nightly backup using CD-ROM

2005-08-16 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
Hi all, I found a post from last November with a small script for backing up to CD-ROM with sessions. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064117.html My question is how can I access the data on the CD between backups without having to run fixate? It obviously doe

Re: Backup Products

2005-08-09 Thread Sean P. Malone
wrote: We currently our using Veritas Netbackup Datacenter 4.5 on a Windows server to backup our FreeBSD, Apple, Windows, Netware, and Solaris Servers. This Cross-Platform works wonderfully. However I was wondering if anyone had any successs with an open source backup product that would be a

Re: Backup Products

2005-08-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/8/05, Sean Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We currently our using Veritas Netbackup Datacenter 4.5 on a Windows > server to backup our FreeBSD, Apple, Windows, Netware, and Solaris Servers. > > This Cross-Platform works wonderfully. However I was wondering if > an

Re: Backup Products

2005-08-09 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 04:30:17PM -0700, Sean Murphy wrote: > This Cross-Platform works wonderfully. However I was wondering if > anyone had any successs with an open source backup product that would be > able to control 2 tape librarys on the same scsi chain, with each tape >

Backup Products

2005-08-08 Thread Sean Murphy
We currently our using Veritas Netbackup Datacenter 4.5 on a Windows server to backup our FreeBSD, Apple, Windows, Netware, and Solaris Servers. This Cross-Platform works wonderfully. However I was wondering if anyone had any successs with an open source backup product that would be able to

Re: any backup utilities for ACLs?

2005-08-06 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:17:36 -0400 (EDT), >> Dru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: D> I've enabled ACL support on a 5.4-RELEASE system and have no problems D> creating and modifying ACLs. However, I can't seem to find a backup D> program that will actually rest

Re: any backup utilities for ACLs?

2005-08-06 Thread Francisco
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Dru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: However, I can't seem to find a backup program that will actually restore the ACLs. The day sent that message I tried looking too.. Interestingly enough tar describes that it can restore ACL.. yet it seem

Re: any backup utilities for ACLs?

2005-08-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've enabled ACL support on a 5.4-RELEASE system and have no problems > creating and modifying ACLs. > > However, I can't seem to find a backup program that will actually > restore the ACLs. I've tried bsdtar, pax, and s

any backup utilities for ACLs?

2005-07-30 Thread Dru
I've enabled ACL support on a 5.4-RELEASE system and have no problems creating and modifying ACLs. However, I can't seem to find a backup program that will actually restore the ACLs. I've tried bsdtar, pax, and star. Has anyone had any success in backing up and restoring AC

Re: Backup kernel - confirmation

2005-07-28 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Bryan Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, you can do that. Also of note is that when FreeBSD compiles a > kernel it takes the old kernel and renames it kernel.old. When FreeBSD > is booting you can select which kernel to use simpy by entering > "boot /boot/kernel.old/kernel" or "boot /bo

Re: Backup kernel - confirmation

2005-07-28 Thread Bryan Maynard
On Thursday 28 July 2005 02:10 pm, Norberto Meijome wrote: > quick question - I have a remote box with SMP/HTT disabled, but I'd > like to see how it works with it. If I make a copy of my current > kernel to /kernel_orig, I should be able to install the SMP one as > /kernel, and if hell breaks lose

Backup kernel - confirmation

2005-07-28 Thread Norberto Meijome
quick question - I have a remote box with SMP/HTT disabled, but I'd like to see how it works with it. If I make a copy of my current kernel to /kernel_orig, I should be able to install the SMP one as /kernel, and if hell breaks lose, I should be able to point it to /kernel_orig ... right? any

Re: Backup Server with Freebsd 5.4. Help.

2005-07-23 Thread perikillo
ear some experienced about this situation and see if > > > > is possible: > > > > > > > >We have in the company i work, one backup system running Windows NT > > > > 4 with some Seagate Backup Exec 7.8 over one SCSI system HP SuRestore > > &

Re: Backup Server with Freebsd 5.4. Help.

2005-07-23 Thread Hornet
On 7/22/05, perikillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/22/05, lars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > perikillo wrote: > > > Hi people. > > > > > > I like to hear some experienced about this situation and see if > > > is possible: > &

Re: Backup Server with Freebsd 5.4. Help.

2005-07-23 Thread Hornet
On 7/22/05, perikillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/22/05, lars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > perikillo wrote: > > > Hi people. > > > > > > I like to hear some experienced about this situation and see if > > > is possible: > &

Re: Backup Server with Freebsd 5.4. Help.

2005-07-22 Thread perikillo
On 7/22/05, lars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > perikillo wrote: > > Hi people. > > > > I like to hear some experienced about this situation and see if > > is possible: > > > >We have in the company i work, one backup system running Windows NT

Re: Backup Server with Freebsd 5.4. Help.

2005-07-22 Thread lars
perikillo wrote: Hi people. I like to hear some experienced about this situation and see if is possible: We have in the company i work, one backup system running Windows NT 4 with some Seagate Backup Exec 7.8 over one SCSI system HP SuRestore Ultrium 230, this system has working good

Backup Server with Freebsd 5.4. Help.

2005-07-21 Thread perikillo
Hi people. I like to hear some experienced about this situation and see if is possible: We have in the company i work, one backup system running Windows NT 4 with some Seagate Backup Exec 7.8 over one SCSI system HP SuRestore Ultrium 230, this system has working good for some years

Re: Multi-Volume Backup

2005-06-09 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 09 June 2005 15:05, Micheal Patterson wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Cody Holland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 4:14 PM > Subject: Multi-Volume Backup > > > I'm trying to do a multi-volume backu

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