Benjamin P. Keating wrote:
My Plan is to make a gzipped tarball of the entire machine, excluding
directories that are not necessary. If however, there is a more sound
solution then tarballing a machine for a backup, Im all ears. I know
rsync is a possibility, but i'd like to have just a solid,
Ben,
I personally believe the only data necessary to archive is your
configuration files, and user data. The OS is easy to replace, real
easy in FreeBSD. I consider the entire OS to be expendable because it
is so easy to replace. Another option for software is amanda. Its in
ports.
Drew
On
I forgot, after the newfs I remount the slice before the dump command!
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Hello,
Im not a sysadmin but I wanted to share the configuration I use at home for
my
file server running on a small Epia mini-ITX fanless motherboard.
Basically the box only has 2x 120GB
Benjamin P. Keating wrote:
My Plan is to make a gzipped tarball of the entire machine, excluding
directories that are not necessary. If however, there is a more sound
solution then tarballing a machine for a backup, Im all ears. I know
rsync is a possibility, but i'd like to have just a solid,
Hello,
Im not a sysadmin but I wanted to share the configuration I use at home for my
file server running on a small Epia mini-ITX fanless motherboard.
Basically the box only has 2x 120GB hard drives. Then its combination of
dump/rsync/rdiff-backup. I wanted to be able to swap drives if
My Plan is to make a gzipped tarball of the entire machine, excluding
directories that are not necessary. If however, there is a more sound
solution then tarballing a machine for a backup, Im all ears. I know
rsync is a possibility, but i'd like to have just a solid, non-active
archive
