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

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.

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.

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.

> 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.

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.

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.

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

Re: Tape backup woes (mt)... should I file a bug report?

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > Eventually and accidentally, I found out about rewinding and > non-rewinding device files, the information being hidden deep in the tar > info file. For all who don't know it: [ snip info about /dev/stX (auto-rewinding) vs. /dev/nst0 (non-rewindi

Re: tape backup...

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

Re: tape backup...

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

Re: tape backup...

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

Re: tape backup...

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

Re: tape backup...

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

Re: Tape backup software

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, amanda-client, a

Re: Tape backup software

on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:59:48AM +0100, Stephen J. Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Hello all, > > Can anyone recomend some tape backup software for a DAT drive? I need > software that can allow backups to span multiple tapes. See

Re: Tape backup software

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). -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Tape backup

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, install the har

Re: Tape backup tool ?

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

Re: Tape backup software?

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

Re: Tape backup software?

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

Re: Tape backup software?

> "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 would be appreciated. It Kelly> would be for an ATAPI tap

Re: Tape backup software?

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

Re: Tape backup software?

"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,

Re: Tape backup software?

[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

Re: Tape backup software?

"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

Re: Tape backup software?

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

Re: Tape backup software?

"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

RE: Tape backup software?

erslist 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

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 wondering if anyone knew which was the > > "best". Any input would be appreci

Re: Tape backup software?

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 tape > backup drive. THANKS

Re: Tape backup software?

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 tape > backup drive.

Re: Tape Backup

Paulo: You'll find dump and restore at . Dean > > > Hi, > where is dump and restore commands (in what package)? > Thanks, PH > PS: How I mark the tape at its end? Is it necessary? > Quoting Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Pa

Re: Tape Backup

Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > where is dump and restore commands (in what package)? dump is the package name for both. > PS: How I mark the tape at its end? Is it necessary? usage: dump [-0123456789acMnSu] [-B records] [-b blocksize] [-d density

Re: Tape Backup

Hi, where is dump and restore commands (in what package)? Thanks, PH PS: How I mark the tape at its end? Is it necessary? Quoting Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > any one has a tape ba

Re: Tape Backup

Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > any one has a tape backup to share with me. I tried kbackup software and > cant backup using a tape. How about dump and restore? JMHO, Ron -- Email: Home: Alpha Li

Re: Tape Backup Problem

On 05/16/00, Robert Waldner addressed "Re: Tape Backup Problem": > I had the same experience on kernel 2.0.38 with a HP DDS-2 when > using taper and/or kbackup. Settled down for plain tar. Plain tar is nice in some ways, but unless there's hardware compression, using compres

Re: Tape Backup Problem

>Debian 2.0 with Kernel 2.2.2 running on a Dell with >a Quantum DLT4000 tape drive. > >Details: >I attempted to do a test backup a 150meg directory to tape >using the tape >backup program "Taper" After about 10min of it running (46% I had the same experience on kernel 2.0.38 with a HP DDS-2 when

Re: Tape Backup Problem

I had the same problem, but I had a scsi HP and I only tried taper. I was using 2.2.12 with slink. Kevin - Original Message - From: "JoeCool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 10:18 AM Subject: Tape Backup Problem Hi All, I've been trying t

Re: Tape Backup And Block Size

"Chris Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: First, it'd help if you wrapped the lines in your posts. Those long lines make it look like crap in a lot of newsreaders. | Does anyone know how to find out what the proper block size is for a | tape drive? I have an Exabyte 8200 scsi tape drive (8mm 2

Re: tape backup regiment

On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > If you want to do a full backup each night the cron job is a snap, just > 'dump 0f /dev/tape-device'. As to the restore disk this is something I've > Rob Goodwin wrote: > > I would like to set up a "fail-safe" backup system for a linux box that > >

Re: tape backup regiment

If you want to do a full backup each night the cron job is a snap, just 'dump 0f /dev/tape-device'. As to the restore disk this is something I've wanted to set up for a while. I haven't made it a priority though because I know I can restore by hand. This shouldn't be too hard though: there's a pack

Re: Tape backup

On Fri, Jun 13, 1997 at 03:56:00PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > I am using an iomega "jaz" removable disk cartridge for backup. I got > the scsi internal version for $299 with one disk. The disks aren't > cheap: $100 for 1GB, but they are fast and much more convenient than > tape and useful for muc

Re: Tape backup

I am using an iomega "jaz" removable disk cartridge for backup. I got the scsi internal version for $299 with one disk. The disks aren't cheap: $100 for 1GB, but they are fast and much more convenient than tape and useful for much more than backup. Compare them to $40 for a travan cartrige and ther