> I have a tape drive inside a Win95 machine, what is the exact command to
> qzip and tar and entire drive for such a catastrophe? I was placed in the
> position of admin and have been trying to learn all I can. If anyone can
> tell me my best emergency procedures, I NEED to put them in place
> immediately.
If you've purchased 5.0, then you have a commercial backup program, called
bru.
Otherwise there are several backup programs (typically shell script
wrappers to other executables) that can be used.
Your backup strategy really depends on what you are using the machine for.
If it is being used in a commercial environment, with people using it all
the time, and relying on the data, you might consider a 6-tape backup
scheme. Something like one tape for each of Mon-Thurs, and one tape for
even Fri's and one tape for odd Fri's.
An incremental backup would be done each of the Mon-Thurs days, and a
full-backup on each Fri.
You can otherwise use a few tapes to backup user's data, and system
configuration data. Then if you have a crash, you can reinstall the OS
from CDROM, and restore the user's data and the system config files only.
Check out sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/backup for program you might
consier using.
It also depends on how much your data is worth. Do you want to rely on
someone's shell script for your backups, or do you want to spend $50 to
get a good OS, and a commercially supported backup program?
> One more question: What would cause named to stop? And then not restart
> until a reboot. Nothing in the messages, bad anyway. Any causes? Anything?
Perhaps a link problem, or a routing problem? How long does it run for?
Is there any debugging information in /var/log/messages?
Consider adding the following to /etc/syslog.conf:
*.debug /var/log/messages
and restart syslogd. This will then write more descriptive debugging
information, which should give you some ideas.
Dave
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