Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I posted about this and received no replies. I thought I'd report back
> about what I wound up doing...
What you're doing looks pretty cool. I was looking in to backing up
my /home (which isn't too big) onto a Zip disk. I was checking out
TOB (tape oriented backup), but there are a couple of things that bug
me about it.
1) It tars directly to a device - not to a filesystem. This means one
backup (full, differential, or incremental) per disk, yes? I haven't
looked too hard yet - hacking the script to tar to a filesystem can't
be that hard, though.
2) It saves it's indexes and so forth in "/var/something" on the
machine the backups run on. Umm, what if that's the disk that
crashes?! I guess I could include this dir for every backup I've
made, but then, it will back up it BEFORE the new index gets written?
So, I'll need a separate script to backup the backup index?!
If anyone has any ionsight on this, please share it - I'd like to know
if TOB is worth my while, or if I should take Peter's lead and make
custom scripts.
Thanks,
Dale
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