Re: Tape Backup advice needed - dump, tar etc.

2005-09-20 Thread Dave Carrigan
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

Re: Tape Backup advice needed - dump, tar etc.

2005-09-20 Thread wim
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

Re: Tape Backup advice needed - dump, tar etc.

2005-09-19 Thread Tom Vier
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

Re: Tape Backup advice needed - dump, tar etc.

2005-09-18 Thread Ben Pearre
> 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

Re: Tape Backup advice needed - dump, tar etc.

2005-09-16 Thread Angelo Bertolli
I'll throw in a suggestion for bacula: http://bacula.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tape Backup advice needed - dump, tar etc.

2005-09-16 Thread Glenn English
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

Re: Tape Backup advice needed - dump, tar etc.

2005-09-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
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

Tape Backup advice needed - dump, tar etc.

2005-09-16 Thread J French
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

Re: network backup advice - windoze

2001-09-08 Thread Robert Waldner
(*please* do *not* cc me on list-mail) On Sat, 08 Sep 2001 00:43:36 PDT, Alvin Oga writes: >havent had any problems using linux to backup windoze boxes... Think disaster recovery, think windos nt: I surely *don´t* want to have to re-install the OS, the applications, make 100k settings and then

RE: network backup advice -- rsyn + ssh

2001-09-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya from the examples...http://www.linux-Backup.net/examples.gwif.html rsync -e ssh -av [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/Backup/xfer/* xfer c ya alvin On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > Brad Cramer wrote: > > > I have a small network at home (4 linux machine 2 win98 machines) and I > > w

Re: network backup advice - windoze

2001-09-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya robert... havent had any problems using linux to backup windoze boxes... ( even if they had illegal linux filename chars that is allowed in windows windoze files names like: "Tom's special excel spread sheet" dd is NOT reliable...if the original disks has a bad block at 12345 on

Re: network backup advice

2001-09-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya Mike yes... good point, you(a hacker/cracker) can remove the backups tooo ... no question ... but how many levels of backups and what type of backups one wants ??? ( one can do backups securely ... or not.. - sorta endless game... - once we are almost ready to use a "crdom array"

RE: network backup advice

2001-09-07 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Brad Cramer wrote: > I have a small network at home (4 linux machine 2 win98 machines) and I > would like to know what would be the best way to back these up to one server > that has a scsi dat drive. I have tries afbackup but am having a heck of a > time getting it configured. Is there a simpler

Re: network backup advice

2001-09-07 Thread Robert Waldner
>> -- backups for Win98 can be done similarly... >> - need to have samba installed on the linux box... >> and test that you can see the windoze shares >> - backup the windoze boxes from the backupserver itself Ok, so you can backup win9x-boxen, but what about other windos´s? The

Re: network backup advice

2001-09-07 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Alvin Oga wrote: > backup server should export the host directory to each host I'm not too sure about this, because if I manage to compromise the machien being backed up, I can remove your backups on the host server. I ended up setting up a central backup server, that

Re: network backup advice

2001-09-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya brad -- many hundred/thousands of ways to do backup... -- i implement something similar to your stuff.. BackupServer:/Backup/HOST/Month/day.tgz ( one of 3 place where all backup files are stored ) backup server should export the host directory to each host -- you

Re: network backup advice

2001-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:24:47AM -0500, Brad Cramer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a small network at home (4 linux machine 2 win98 machines) and > I would like to know what would be the best way to back these up to > one server that has a scsi dat drive. I have tries afbackup but am > havin

network backup advice

2001-09-07 Thread Brad Cramer
I have a small network at home (4 linux machine 2 win98 machines) and I would like to know what would be the best way to back these up to one server that has a scsi dat drive. I have tries afbackup but am having a heck of a time getting it configured. Is there a simpler way of doing this. I am main

Backup advice

1998-04-27 Thread Janos A Csirik
Hello, I would like to get some kind of backup device for my laptop (running Debian linux). A parallel Zip drive comes to mind, but I thought I'd ask around first to find out if people have some advice on this. I am primarily looking for hassle-free Debian operation and data security. I seem to