In message <35e5ba6b.512298@mail.danbbs.dk>, you write:
> Suffering from a recent disk crash, I'm investigating methods to
> backup my NetBSD boxes (I currently run two, one at home and one at
> work).

<snip>

> So, what are you NetBSD users' experiences? Do you just dump(8) your
> file systems as described, do you tar(1) the entire system from /, or
> do you use a scheme better than the one I'm here proposing? E.g. RCS
> or CVS control configuration files?

I do a mix =)

I use RCS for all my config files, sendmail.cf, named.boot, /var/named files,
etc.

I will periodically tar up things I wanna keep, like personal mail.

When I do backups, I use dump and restore -i to retrieve individual files.

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Michael Parson
Systems Administrator
IXC Communications, Inc.
The Data Place - Austin