On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:49:05PM +, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
> I've also got more files stored on cheap flash media, than I'll ever be
> able to figure out what I needed them for. I've got a couple of older
> laptops with pcmcia slots that still read/write 8 year old media just fine.
> I
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Could those of you who use tape (DDS, DLT, Ultrium) for backup or
archive tell me what format and software you have found most helpful?
I only have a couple of boxes to backup. Right now, they each run their
own script and create a tarball that then the main box rsyncs t
Could those of you who use tape (DDS, DLT, Ultrium) for backup or
archive tell me what format and software you have found most helpful?
I only have a couple of boxes to backup. Right now, they each run their
own script and create a tarball that then the main box rsyncs to its
raid1 array (and the
Hi,
I just purchased and returned a DDS5 (DAT 72) drive which I was told
would be able to ready my DDS4 tapes. I tried two drives, but both
failed with the tape becoming irretrievably jammed in the drive. Can
someone suggest a SCSI tape storage solution which is upwardly
compatibl
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:13:31AM -0500, J French wrote:
> We are setting up Debian Linux on a new server for a PostGreSQL database. In
> the past, on FreeBSD, I used the dump utility with the live filesystem
> (snapshot) switch to backup the running database. Does dump on linux support
> live
You might check out bakula or afbackup, they're both on sourceforge I
think. Trying google will also work :-)
Cheers & success!
Wim
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 11:22:13AM -0400, Tom Vier wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:13:31AM -0500, J French wrote:
> > Debian (or linux in general)? I need a r
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:13:31AM -0500, J French wrote:
> Debian (or linux in general)? I need a robust backup because this will be a
> production server. Advice is appreciated.
You cannot use dump on a read/write mounted fs - the kernel does not keep
writes from the fs coherent with the block
> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 11:13 -0500, J French wrote:
> > How are most people backing up to tape with Debian (or linux in
> > general)? I need a robust backup because this will be a production
> > server. Advice is appreciated.
I ran a Linux lab for a while. Ended up with one of those 200G tape
I'll throw in a suggestion for bacula:
http://bacula.org/
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On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 11:13 -0500, J French wrote:
> How are most people backing up to tape with Debian (or linux in
> general)? I need a robust backup because this will be a production
> server. Advice is appreciated.
I'm using Amanda, but Amanda uses dump or gtar, so the question about
live f
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, J French wrote:
> Hello,
> We are setting up Debian Linux on a new server for a PostGreSQL database. In
> the past, on FreeBSD, I used the dump utility with the live filesystem
> (snapshot) switch to backup the running database. Does dump on linux support
> live filesystem bac
Hello,
We are setting up Debian Linux on a new server for a PostGreSQL database. In the past, on FreeBSD, I used the dump utility with the live filesystem (snapshot) switch to backup the running database. Does dump on linux support live filesystem backups as well? How are most people backing up
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Any ideas why I get I/O errors???
TIA, Brendan Simon.
Brendan Simon wrote:
Hi,
I have a Sony AIT-1 tape backup unit (IDE) installed in a PowerMac
running debian/testing with a 2.6.8 kernel.
I have not had much success getting it to work :(
I have made a symlink from /dev
Hi,
I have a Sony AIT-1 tape backup unit (IDE) installed in a PowerMac
running debian/testing with a 2.6.8 kernel.
I have not had much success getting it to work :(
I have made a symlink from /dev/tape to /dev/nst0
I have the following in my /etc/modules.
ide-tape
ide-scsi
ide-cd
ide
o start with was that 'mt eom' apparently didn't work
> as advertised.
I agree, it is very non-intuitive. On the other hand, it is also in every
tape-backup FAQ I've ever seen, so the info is readily available. I'm not
saying that to be an asshole (really!). IMHO, the
Hello,
I've got a tape drive for backups, and for a long time I was absolutely
unable to store more than a singe archive per tape.
Stop smiling, that's not funny.
Eventually and accidentally, I found out about rewinding and
non-rewinding device files, the information being hidden deep in the tar
on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:38:26PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:40:55AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:37:26PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:57:04AM +, Karsten M. Self
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:02, David Purton wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 06:29:39AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 06:00, Haines Brown wrote:
> > > You say you want a "new backup system," and did not specify it should
> > > be tape.
> > >
> > > I recommend that you consider
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 22:07, David Purton wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:57:04AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:41:15PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:00:19AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
[snip]
> > If you need to rec
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:40:55AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:37:26PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:57:04AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
>
> > > If you need to recover a snapshot (or file) from 12 months ago, a
> >
on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:37:26PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:57:04AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > If you need to recover a snapshot (or file) from 12 months ago, a
> > three-disk rotation isn't going to do much for you.
>
> We backup offsite
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:57:04AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:41:15PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:00:19AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> > > You say you want a "new backup system," and did not specify it should
> > > be
on Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:41:15PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:00:19AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> > You say you want a "new backup system," and did not specify it should
> > be tape.
> >
> > I recommend that you consider an external USB drive for
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, David Purton wrote:
>
> Actaully we'd probably risk it with 3 disks - so at any given time we
> have two full snapshots and then use the third disk for daily
> backups. So drves would be not such a bad option.
>
> Also does anyone know anything about these Mobile Rack Hard
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 06:29:39AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 06:00, Haines Brown wrote:
> > You say you want a "new backup system," and did not specify it should
> > be tape.
> >
> > I recommend that you consider an external USB drive for backups. It is
> > the cheapest me
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 19:23, David Purton wrote:
> Our ancient tape drive died and we need to get a new backup system
> happening.
>
> What are debian users recommendations for backups?
>
> We are a small business and back up about 15GB on a weekly basis, with
> daily differentials inbetween.
No
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 06:00, Haines Brown wrote:
> You say you want a "new backup system," and did not specify it should
> be tape.
>
> I recommend that you consider an external USB drive for backups. It is
> the cheapest method you could use in terms of cost/mb, and does not
> run the danger of
David Purton wrote:
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:00:19AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
I recommend that you consider an external USB drive for backups.
Anything to avoid regarding linux with these beasts?
Yes. See http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/devices.php under the mass
storage section.
Recently I
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:00:19AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> You say you want a "new backup system," and did not specify it should
> be tape.
>
> I recommend that you consider an external USB drive for backups. It is
> the cheapest method you could use in terms of cost/mb, and does not
> run t
You say you want a "new backup system," and did not specify it should
be tape.
I recommend that you consider an external USB drive for backups. It is
the cheapest method you could use in terms of cost/mb, and does not
run the danger of proprietary standards (I've got a bunch of old OS/2
DAT tapes
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 19:46, David Purton wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 05:33:25PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, David Purton wrote:
> >
> > > Our ancient tape drive died and we need to get a new backup system
> > > happening.
> > >
> > > What are debian users recom
erm storage - we keep about a fortnights
> worth of files on tape.
that makes things tons easier...
- get any (DLT) tape drive with the desired capacity
( preferably one that obeys "eject /dev/tape" so
( the tape cannot be overwritten if somebody forgets t
on Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:53:54AM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Our ancient tape drive died and we need to get a new backup system
> happening.
>
> What are debian users recommendations for backups?
>
> We are a small business and back up about 15GB on a weekly basis, with
> d
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, David Purton wrote:
> Our ancient tape drive died and we need to get a new backup system
> happening.
>
> What are debian users recommendations for backups?
>
> We are a small business and back up about 15GB on a weekly basis, with
> daily differentials inbetween.
get a si
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 05:33:25PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, David Purton wrote:
>
> > Our ancient tape drive died and we need to get a new backup system
> > happening.
> >
> > What are debian users recommendations for backups?
> >
> > We are a small business and back u
Our ancient tape drive died and we need to get a new backup system
happening.
What are debian users recommendations for backups?
We are a small business and back up about 15GB on a weekly basis, with
daily differentials inbetween.
cheers
dc
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On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 01:20, Doug MacFarlane wrote:
>
> I have confirmed it's working (via tar, then a restore to a different location,
> and a file-compare).
>
> What packages do you folks recommend for a single-system? There are about
> a half-dozen listed - taper, amanda, afbackup, tapir, kba
Team:
I have a single system with 38 gb of disk that's about 1/2 full. It has
a DDS-3 12/24 gb tape-backup on it.
I have confirmed it's working (via tar, then a restore to a different location,
and a file-compare).
What packages do you folks recommend for a single-system? There a
25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > > Hello list,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am planing to backup the /home directory which is around
> > > > > 30GB in size with multiple DDS3 tape--each has 12GB. Is there
> > > > > any tool for easier mu
;
> > > > I am planing to backup the /home directory which is around 30GB
> > > > in size with multiple DDS3 tape--each has 12GB. Is there any tool
> > > > for easier multiple tape backup like this? I can switch the tape
> > > > myself.
> > >
>
0GB
> > > in size with multiple DDS3 tape--each has 12GB. Is there any tool
> > > for easier multiple tape backup like this? I can switch the tape
> > > myself.
> >
> > Afbackup works well for me. (DDS3 tapes / ~120G backup set).
>
> Do you have a "
ool for
> > easier multiple tape backup like this? I can switch the tape myself.
>
> Afbackup works well for me. (DDS3 tapes / ~120G backup set).
Do you have a "stacker", i.e. autoloader?
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On Thursday 27 June 2002 08:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I am planing to backup the /home directory which is around 30GB in
> size with multiple DDS3 tape--each has 12GB. Is there any tool for
> easier multiple tape backup like this? I can switch the tape my
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:25:56AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I am planing to backup the /home directory which is around 30GB in size
> with multiple DDS3 tape--each has 12GB. Is there any tool for easier
> multiple tape backup like this? I can switch the ta
Hello list,
I am planing to backup the /home directory which is around 30GB in size
with multiple DDS3 tape--each has 12GB. Is there any tool for easier
multiple tape backup like this? I can switch the tape myself.
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On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 02:49:47PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> I (for one) am very interested to hear what about
> people experiences, recommendations (or lack thereof) concerning tape
> backup software.
As you may have guessed from my earlier post to the thread, I swear
by aman
hi y jams...
tape backup sw...
"find | gre | tar " works best for me...
( going to tape or disks )
- tons of free backup scripts and few more commercial apps
which you use depends n your budget and
amount of data and backup media you use
an
databases.
> Agreed. Now, would it be possible to get back to the original topic "tape
> backup software". I (for one) am very interested to hear what about
> people experiences, recommendations (or lack thereof) concerning tape
> backup software. I don't care much for
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:04:49PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> hi ya petro
Morning.
> On Mon, 20 May 2002, Petro wrote:
> > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:10:34AM -0700, Peter Whysall wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 06:22, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > > > --- if the disks is raid5'd ...
On 21 May 2002 14:31:02 -0500
"Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think we're well past the point where we must agree to
> disagree about the best way to back up enterprise databases.
Agreed. Now, would it be possible to get back to the original topic &quo
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 03:05, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> hi ya ron
>
> > And I'll be bringing home my greater-than-terabyte-sized
> > enterprise database (to poke around with it..) some time in
> > the near future??? Not likely.
>
> it fits in a itty bitty "2u" cases...
> - 2 or more of um for
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:05:46AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> i wouldn't give "backups" to people
> ( when the backups contain user passwds and
> ( financial data or other sensitive stuff...
Encrypt the backup, so you don't have to worry about it as much.
Yeah, some folks have the
hi ya ron
> And I'll be bringing home my greater-than-terabyte-sized
> enterprise database (to poke around with it..) some time in
> the near future??? Not likely.
it fits in a itty bitty "2u" cases...
- 2 or more of um for redundancy/reliability
> Besides, I don't have a $3M Alpha w
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 00:04, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
>
> hi ya petro
>
> On Mon, 20 May 2002, Petro wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:10:34AM -0700, Peter Whysall wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 06:22, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > > > --- if the disks is raid5'd ... give one disk
> > > >
hi ya petro
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Petro wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:10:34AM -0700, Peter Whysall wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 06:22, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > > --- if the disks is raid5'd ... give one disk
> > > --- to each of the CEO/CFO/CTO/foo/bar and no one user
>
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:25:59AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> hi ya
> a nice picture of what causes a system to fail... disks or ???
> http://www.Linux-1U.net/Disks/Disk_Failure.gif
> ( its from an IDC survey )
> ( the picture stolen/copied from
> http://safersite.net/NSS15AFaultToleran
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:10:34AM -0700, Peter Whysall wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 06:22, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > --- if the disks is raid5'd ... give one disk
> > --- to each of the CEO/CFO/CTO/foo/bar and no one user
> > --- has all the data... no way for stea
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:24:55PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> 160GB ide disks is $150-$200 range... cheap...
> - 1Terabyte of backup in one 1u chassis.. no problem...
> and i do compressed backups of up to 3 or 6 months... dpeending
> on diskspace they willing ot buy and user data
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:52:54PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> Doesn't Amanda require a "backup" partition?
Amanda likes to have holding disks to work from, but I don't think
you're absolutely required to have one.
> Doesn't the partition also
> need to be the size of your largest backup tar
hi ya
a nice picture of what causes a system to fail... disks or ???
http://www.Linux-1U.net/Disks/Disk_Failure.gif
( its from an IDC survey )
( the picture stolen/copied from
http://safersite.net/NSS15AFaultTolerantUsersStoragePowerandNetworks.htm
- but it seems they m
hi ya peter
> > - a tape is 40 - 80GB same as disks ... nowdays disks is
> > always slightly higher capacity
>
> You're behind the curve. AIT3 and SDLT offer capacities of ~200GB per
> tape.
yuppers gave up when tapes was 80GB and the mammoth tape drives
was $7K each... and e
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 06:22, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> hi ya ron
>
> On 19 May 2002, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > You and I must think on different scales...
>
> think its similar scales..
> - different ways to skin the cat...
>
> - a tape is 40 - 80GB same as disks ... nowdays disks is
> a
hi ya ron
On 19 May 2002, Ron Johnson wrote:
> You and I must think on different scales...
think its similar scales..
- different ways to skin the cat...
- a tape is 40 - 80GB same as disks ... nowdays disks is
always slightly higher capacity
- there was a time when a
You and I must think on different scales...
30 days worth of the 155GB database that I manage, plus
the 40GB of flat files == 5.8TB
30 days worth of the 80GB database that I manage, plus
the 20GB of flat files == 2.4TB
30 days of the 1.5TB disk space that my co-worker manages
plus 200GB of flat
hi ya ron
> [snip]
> > - tons of problems with tapes for "large amount of data"...
>
> You get what you pay for. At work, we use DLTs, and _never_
> have problems, as long as we run the cleaning tape weekly.
> Part of the reason is that DLT drives are made well, and another
> reason is that
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 18:18, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> hi ya
[snip]
> - tons of problems with tapes for "large amount of data"...
You get what you pay for. At work, we use DLTs, and _never_
have problems, as long as we run the cleaning tape weekly.
Part of the reason is that DLT drives are made
hi ya
i thought amanda needed "temp space for it to backup its file to go to
backup" .. ie.. if you backing up 100GB of user data ... you need another
100GB of space too ... before it goes to the final backup media ( tape ? )
- 1TB in some cases of backups ...
-- tar is a time tested be
On 19 May 2002 13:58:29 -0500
"Kirk Strauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm a big fan of Amanda, which uses tar or dump to backup as many remote
> machines as you want to a central backup server.
Doesn't Amanda require a "backup" partition? Doesn't the partition also
need to be the size of
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» Which tape backup software is considered the best? I not really
» considering commericial products, b
At 2002-05-19T15:26:26Z, Michael Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Which tape backup software is considered the best? I not really
> considering commericial products, but I'd like to stick to one of the
> following: dump, tar, cpio, pax
I'm a big fan of Amanda,
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:26:26AM -0500, Michael Madden wrote:
> Which tape backup software is considered the best? I not really
> considering commericial products, but I'd like to stick to one of the
> following: dump, tar, cpio, pax
>
> I will be backing up ext2 and ext3 f
Which tape backup software is considered the best? I not really
considering commericial products, but I'd like to stick to one of the
following: dump, tar, cpio, pax
I will be backing up ext2 and ext3 filesystems to a DDS4 tape drive
on the local machine. Is any of the prementioned b
on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:01:01AM -0500, Alexander Wallace ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Hello there! I have a 2 gb dat drive and I would like to backup my server
> periodicaly. It works, it's /dev/st0... I know I can use mt to do stuff
> with the drive and tar to backup stuff... But is there a be
I'll check it out! Thanks a lot!
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> Not a direct answer to your question, but check out
> http://www.linux-backup.net.
>
> They have some great linux backup resources there including several example
> backup scripts.
>
> --kurt
> On Wednesday 24 October
Kurt Lieber said:
> Not a direct answer to your question, but check out
> http://www.linux-backup.net.
>
> They have some great linux backup resources there including several example
> backup scripts.
>
> --kurt
> On Wednesday 24 October 2001 08:01, Alexander Wallace wrote:
>> Hello there! I have
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:01:01AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote:
> Hello there! I have a 2 gb dat drive and I would like to backup my server
> periodicaly. It works, it's /dev/st0... I know I can use mt to do stuff
> with the drive and tar to backup stuff... But is there a better way???
There ar
Not a direct answer to your question, but check out
http://www.linux-backup.net.
They have some great linux backup resources there including several example
backup scripts.
--kurt
On Wednesday 24 October 2001 08:01, Alexander Wallace wrote:
> Hello there! I have a 2 gb dat drive and I would li
Hello there! I have a 2 gb dat drive and I would like to backup my server
periodicaly. It works, it's /dev/st0... I know I can use mt to do stuff
with the drive and tar to backup stuff... But is there a better way???
Thanks!
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:59:48AM +0100, Stephen J . Thompson wrote:
>
> Can anyone recomend some tape backup software for a DAT drive? I need
> software that can allow backups to span multiple tapes.
You want amanda. It's spread across a few packages in Debian:
amanda-common,
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> Hello all,
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> Can anyone recomend some tape backup software for a DAT drive? I need
> software that can allow backups t
Stephen J.Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can anyone recomend some tape backup software for a DAT drive? I need
> software that can allow backups to span multiple tapes.
Well, the obvious answer is tar (has a --multi-volume option).
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Can anyone recomend some tape backup software for a DAT drive? I need
software that can allow backups to span multiple tapes.
Thanks.
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on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:54:55AM -0800, Jason Weidman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Can someone tell me how to setup my Tandberg SCSI tape backup on my
> debian box?
What have you attempted, and what problems have you had to date?
Is this a standard SCSI DAT tape device? If so, insta
Can someone tell me how to setup my Tandberg SCSI tape backup on my debian box?
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 07:43:17PM +0200, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> just wanted to ask if you know any good backup programs for KDE /
> Gnome that do it with my Tandberg SLR5-SCSI-streamer... I heard of
> taper which is more or less a console-driven tool but am also
> search
Hello everyone,
just wanted to ask if you know any good backup programs for KDE /
Gnome that do it with my Tandberg SLR5-SCSI-streamer... I heard of
taper which is more or less a console-driven tool but am also
searching for a graphical frontend like Backup Exec and ArcServe on
Win$... Any ideas ?
Thanks for everyone's input, this gives me some good places to start!
Kelly
dave brookshire wrote:
>
> On the open source side of things, I'm a big fan of Amanda. You can
> find the original source and stuff at ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/amanda, or
> at http://www.amanda.org/.
>
> On the closed
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:04:53AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> "Andrew McRobert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I have to say that i find that "tar" covers all bases pretty well ...
> > depends what you're used to I guess.
>
> There's at least one issue with tar that's kept me from using it, yo
>>>>> "Kelly" == Kelly Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kelly> Has anyone had much experience w/ tape backup in Linux? I am
Kelly> looking for tape backup software and was wondering if anyone
Kelly> knew which was the "best". Any input woul
On 25 Jul 2000, Riku Saikkonen wrote:
> Has anyone tried recovering damaged .tar.bz2 files? Any success /
> failure?
Hi, guys. Here's what I did:
# cd /tmp
# tail -c 1048576 /dev/hda > t.bulk.o
# cat t.bulk.o | bzip2 -1 > t.bulk.bz2
# echo "Damage string to insert before actual bz2 image" > tm
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Has anyone tried recovering damaged .tar.bz2 files? Any success /
> > failure?
I'd also like to know about this.
> > (By the way, there is also afio, which is a command-line tool like tar
> > but compresses one file at a time. The format, of course,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Riku Saikkonen) writes:
> "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >There's at least one issue with tar that's kept me from using it, you
> >don't want to use software compression with tar. Tar compresses
> >globally, which means that the whole of the archive is considered o
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>There's at least one issue with tar that's kept me from using it, you
>don't want to use software compression with tar. Tar compresses
>globally, which means that the whole of the archive is considered one
>big compressed file. If something happens to th
Gary Hennigan wrote:
> There's at least one issue with tar that's kept me from using it, you
> don't want to use software compression with tar.
In addition, you should have some sort of verification that the data
written to tape is actually good. I personally have used BRU for over 5
years. Very
"Andrew McRobert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have to say that i find that "tar" covers all bases pretty well ...
> depends what you're used to I guess.
There's at least one issue with tar that's kept me from using it, you
don't want to use software compression with tar. Tar compresses
globall
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Subject: Re: Tape backup software?
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tar!
> -chris
>
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Kelly Corbin wrote:
>
> > Has anyone had much experience w/ tape backup in Linux? I am looking
> > for tape backup software and was wonderi
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tar!
> -chris
>
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Kelly Corbin wrote:
>
> > Has anyone had much experience w/ tape backup in Linux? I am looking
> > for tape backup software and was wondering if anyone knew which was th
Tar!
-chris
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Kelly Corbin wrote:
> Has anyone had much experience w/ tape backup in Linux? I am looking
> for tape backup software and was wondering if anyone knew which was the
> "best". Any input would be appreciated. It would be for an ATAPI
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 04:43:42PM -0500, Kelly Corbin wrote:
> Has anyone had much experience w/ tape backup in Linux? I am looking
> for tape backup software and was wondering if anyone knew which was the
> "best". Any input would be appreciated. It would be for an ATAPI
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