> Someone will say "use tar" or "use afio" or "use dump". I might, but > as far as I can tell none of those except tar inherently support > removable disks (multiple volumes). Tar can do multivolume backups, > but from what I've read if one sector on the disk is corrupted, you > lose the whole backup.
Yep, use tar :) We do all of our tape backups with tar and it works great. We've never had a problem with restoring. I believe the really finicky one is dump not tar, although dump does have some really nice features for doing incremental backups. My main gripe with dump/restore is that last I checked it wouldn't backup a live filesystem... so you had to drop to single user mode or risk corrupted backups... which ain't so hot for a 24x7 network. Adam. ------------------------ Internet Alaska -------------------------- 4050 Lake Otis Adam Shand (v) +1 907 562 4638 Anchorage, Alaska Systems Administrator (f) +1 907 562 1677 ----------------- http://larry.earthlight.co.nz ------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
