Re: tape backup regiment

1998-03-14 Thread rir
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

1998-03-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
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

tape backup regiment

1998-03-04 Thread Rob Goodwin
I would like to set up a "fail-safe" backup system for a linux box that i am putting together for a client of mine. Ideally the client will just have to make sure there is a new tape in there every other day and a cron will take care of backing up the entire 2G drive to tape sometime when everyone