Thanks to all who responded to my message "backup using hard disk - any ideas". I downloaded kbackup and I intend to start with that as soon as I get my replacement drive. Thanks too to Ralph Winslow for the Perl script. That is my current emergency backup till I get the drive back. Another alternative I considered was RAID, which is supposed to be built into the kernel. kbackup seems to be simpler so I'll start with that.
later jmb >Hi, > > I have long been meaning to investigate kbackup, but it kept > loosing to procrastination.I am used to restore/dump and different > levels of dump; I do not see any level 2 or higher facilities in the > documentation (incremental dumps are, well, tedious when restoring). > > I have now started to set kbackup up, and there were a few > false starts (like, do not turn on the verify after backup for a > tape, the option always shows the first archive on the medium, and do > not automatically rewind after every operation). > > I still have questions (the documentation is, charitably, > sparse). And I think I have a bug -- when backing up my home dir, I > do not want to backup the netscape cache> So, I included the line >.netscape/cache > in Exclude_Files-- but the cache files still ended up on the tape ;-( > > Also, how do people handle multiple backups? I have a dozen > different configs defined so far, and there are more to come > (/var/lib/dpkg and /var/named come to mind). How do you set up an > automated backup schedule? How can one script things such that one > does not have to manually toggle the incremental flag? > > manoj > beginning to think about amanda >-- > Do, or do not; there is no try. >Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> >Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
