Bret, Steve and Charles.
OK, Thanks a lot for your input. (You too, Steve. I read *all* posts on
a subject that I've started. :-)
I'll probably look into both amanda and arkeia. If that doesn't please
me, I might finally find myself going back to tar again. :-)
Best regards
Gustav
Gustav Schaffter wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was just trying out dump/restore. Seems to be a nice package. Most
> importantly, I should be able to do a restore even if my system becomes
> rather 'crippled' since restore doesn't require X.
>
> My problem is when doing dump:
>
> I had the idea to create a directory containing only symbolic links to
> the different parts of my system that I want to backup. Then I can
> easily maintain exactly what parts of my system to backup by
> creating/deleting the symbolic links.
>
> Problem is that dump doesn't seem to follow symbolic links. A symbolic
> link to another directory shows up as a file in the dump (as seen by
> restore -i), not as a directory containing files.
>
> Is this working as designed?
>
> How do you maintain a list of what you want to dump? Any smart ideas?
>
> Regards
> Gustav
>
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