I used amanda for a year or so to do just what you want. It's not terribly difficult to setup (the first few tries are frustrating but eventually a light will come on and all will make sense) The only bad thing about amanda (and the reason I stopped using it) is that it won't span a single volume across tapes. Other than that it's pretty solid.
www.amanda.org - andrew On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 10:32, Stéphane Jourdan wrote: > On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 16:18, Richard Humphrey wrote: > > Currently we are using tar (extremely simple script) to back up some > > files to tape. I know this is probably not the best way of doing it. Is > > anyone using another method (cpio,dump etc) and which do you prefer and > > why? Any examples of scripts using these methods would be helpful as > > well. I would like to make daily backups of only the files that were > > changed, and then make a full backup over the weekend. Is this a > > sufficient way of doing backups? > > > > unless you've got a very small amount of data, I would recommend using > rsync (or rsync over ssh for encryption), as it can modify and backup > only what has been modified very quickly. > > Something like > > rsync -avv --delete -b --suffix='.1' --stats --progress \ > "/storage/folder" \ > "/storage/folder1" \ > "/storage/folder2" \ > "/storage/folder3" \ > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]::dest_folder/backup_foler" > ~/.rsync.log > > ...is what I use via a daily cron each night on my servers (it doesn't > really delete the last modified files, but renames them as .1 in case a > problem in the day occur. During the next synchronization, those .1 > files are, this time, really and definitely deleted. Other options are > either cosmetic or verbose for the logs. > > And once a week, the rsync server has another cron that make a full > weekly backup; until it has 4 full weekly backups, the last one becomes > the monthly backup, and the 3 others are deleted, and so on. > > That's what I do ... never said it was absolutely perfect. > > > Richard Humphrey > > System Administrator > > Multicam L.P. > > (972)929-4070 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > Stéphane Jourdan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ITRIS > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
