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Re: [cobalt-users] Raq 4 Help needed
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Raq 4 Help needed
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Jan 7 00:55:00 2002
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
William Moore wrote:
> I had an external drive on the scsi port, like I do all my machines. I run
> a cron job which
> will either ftp the tar'd sites to my ftp server here in chicago or store
> them locally. I had not
> wanted to use the bw so I was just storing them local, he erased the drive
> deleteing my
> backups.
>
> I do it this way as I feel the hardware is cheap enough to have an external
> drive on each
> box for backup purposes.
I like it. But here's something I like more <smile>... if you're not
already doing this, you might want to try it...
Use the Cobalt Migration Utility CMU first, then tar up the resulting
directory structure. It makes restoring sites a lot easier. I like
this a lot better than cobalt's gui-driven backup system.
Jeff
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