antik
04-11-2007, 12:50 PM
It is imperative to have a solid backup and recovery strategy. Over the years, I have tried a lot of tools such as flexbackup, bacula, etc, but nothing met my needs completely. As I was looking into FreeBSD backup solutions, I, once again, came across dump and restore. I was hesitant at first to try it out because it seemed so daunting, but in reality it is very easy to setup and use should you need to recover from a disaster. Here is how I set things up and how I recover my machine from my backups when things go south (http://mikestammer.com/dokuwiki/bsd:dumprestore)...