System Backup Strategies and Utilities
Every operating system needs to have backup schemes available so that computers with critical data on them—no matter what platform—can be resurrected should their hardware fail, their security be breached, or the entire system be lost in a fire or a break-in. The risks are too many to be counted.
FreeBSD doesn't have as many options available for easy, seamless backups as Windows or even Linux do; this is one of the prices we pay for using an operating system that's not quite as “mainstream” as some. Proper backup solutions involve dedicated client-server software installations, a central server orchestrating daily transfers of data from all computers in a cluster, and a tape carousel that handles the incremental ...
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