Owen Townend wrote:
On 2/29/08, *Kent West* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
I have a small server on which I need to backup the /home partition.
I have a Barracuda Terastation Pro backup server sitting right next to
it, connected via Ethernet.
I don't need anything fancy; just simple and reliable.
Hey,
If all is working except for the 2GB file limit (documented or
otherwise) you can just use 'split' to break the archive into smaller
parts:
eg:
`split -b 2000m backup.tar.gz backup.tar.gz.`
or pipe tar straight to it:
`tar ${your-args} | split -b 2000m - backup.tar.gz.`
You can then join them by using 'cat':
`cat backup.tar.gz.* > backup.tar.gz`
This sounds very promising, but I can't seem to wrap my brain around the
syntax required. I just tried this command:
sudo tar -cvzf /TERASTATIONBACKUP/2008Feb29.tgz /home | split -b 2000m -
2008Feb29.tgz
and almost immediately got an "no drive space left" error. Then looking
at "df -h", I see that my smallish / partition (463MB) is full, so I've
got to see what's eating up that space (I think it's because a new
kernel was automagically installed - somehow or 'nuther it seems when I
installed Debian on this box the default install installed whatever
kernel package automatically pulls in the latest version of that kernel
rather than leaving it fixed until I specifically specify an upgrade.
I'm not quite sure how to "fix" that. And I don't really want to have to
reboot yet to activate the newest .point upgrade so I can remove the
older one taking up disk space. I should've made my / partition twice as
large as I did, I reckon.)
The /TERASTATIONBACKUP is a mount-point that Samba mounts the
TeraStation Pro's SMB share. I'm trying to create a file named
"2008Feb29.tgz" on that share, containing the tarred/split contents of
/home. Have I used the correct syntax for what I'm trying to accomplish?
Thanks!
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Kent
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