In message <005701c1a76d$3fd6cc40$0100a8c0@mshome.net>, "Ike Bailey" writes:
>I would like to mirgrate from BSDi. The first think that I would like to =
>do is to backup the servers to a system running NetBSD.  Could tell me =
>the best way to do this? I was thinking of using ftp to tranfer the =
>files, because I can't put any more software on the Boxes running BSDi. =
>Is there a easy way to transfer everything from the BSDi boxes to the =
>box running NetBSD using ftp?=20

Not a really easy one.  A lot depends on what level of backups you need.
You can put the old systems in single-user mode, and run dump into ssh
"cat > file.dump", and then use restore; that's what I'd probably do for
"real backups".  Tar will work too, and is a lot less finicky.

-s