David E. Fox wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:20:38 -0700 > Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>The VMS backup facility did this correctly -- you took a full backup >>once a month and incrementals every day (this was back in the days where >>9 track tape was most common). If you had a disk crash, you did a > > > Back in my old DOS days, I had a Mountain Filesafe 'qic' type drive, > and my working set was just a tad over 1 tape's length - so I had to > use two tapes to do the backup. But what I ended up doing was to run > incremental backups daily, appending each to the end of the second tape > until I ran out of room, upon which I would do another full backup. > > My 2 cents - there is some good backup software out there, but if you > can cobble something together with 'tar' or some other standard tool, > you might be better off - especially when you have to do a full > restore. Of course, you have to have enough of the system loaded in > order to operate the software (i.e., if it's an X based solution, you > need X running in addition to your backup software). But tar can fit > on a floppy. Alternatively you might explore backup solutions that > present themselves on live cd/dvds - that way you only need to boot the > cd and restore your backups. > > Just having purchased a DVD writer, I'm tempted to try growisofs as a > backup tool and just send my backups to rewriteable DVDs as my /home is > just about the same size as a single-layer DVD. It should be much > faster than DAT at least on my system, which is what I was using > previously. > > > >>Dave Carrigan >>Seattle, WA, USA >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 >>UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL >> > > > If you have the space or a spare disk. I use a mixture of rsync and rdiff-backup
rsync to get a complete picture of the system then rdiff-backup for incremental changes. I actually keep a seperate old box with big disks just for the backup. I like rdiff-backup as you can do such stuff as restore this file as it was x days ago. Beats having to dig out the relevant tape and wait for it to restore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
