Hi, I have to backup my debian woody system and I am not sure about the best method.
What I have: I am running my Debian woody system now since two years and it works terrific - and even if the world's downfall/perdition would knock at my front door I now debian is still running like before. But - i have it installed on my toshiba satellite and my laptop is two years older than my debian box (4 years) ... the day will come when my harddrive will leave me to go to /dev/null. So I have to backup my box. I am connected to a little home network with my PC on which I have FreeBSD installed that I want to use as a "backup server". What I did: Because of lack of free space on my hardrive I am connected with my FreeBSD system via NFS (FreeBSD server and Debian client). So I did a tar cvfz root.bak.tar.gz / --exclude=/proc on the mounted remote file system in /mnt/FreeBSD. From my debian side tar is not complaining about anything but testing/untaring the archieve in FreeBSD I receive an error message at the end of the extraction although all files are extracted correctly - maybe the permission are wrong - I am not sure about it. What I want: I want to know if my backup strategy is working this way or if there is a better solution? So ... any help/advice/documentation is appreciated. Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
