Re: backup scripts

2003-05-30 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 09:43, Andrew Williams wrote: > I used amanda for a year or so to do just what you want. It's not > terribly difficult to setup (the first few tries are frustrating but > eventually a light will come on and all will make sense) The only bad > thing about amanda (and the reas

RE: backup scripts

2003-05-30 Thread AragonX
Great. That's what I'm doing now but I wasn't sure if there was a better way to do it. > > -Original Message- > From: AragonX [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 8:02 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: backup scripts > >

Re: backup scripts

2003-05-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
You should be able to use the non rewinding tape device. To restore, you'd use 'mt' to find the correct file, and dump it. Google can probably help you more, and if you're serious about backups there's O'Reilly's "UNIX Backup and Recovery". AragonX wrote: Is there an easy way to get dump to pu

RE: backup scripts

2003-05-30 Thread Binyon Steve Contr Det 4 AFC2TIG/ASRCC
-Original Message- From: AragonX [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 8:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: backup scripts Is there an easy way to get dump to put multiple volumes on a single tape? > tar is fine for getting a directory and its contents, but

RE: backup scripts

2003-05-30 Thread David Demner
AIL PROTECTED]> To: "RedHat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: backup scripts Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 09:18:45 -0500 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Currently we are using tar (extremely simple script) to back up some files to tape. I know this is probably not the best way of doing it. Is a

Re: backup scripts

2003-05-30 Thread AragonX
Is there an easy way to get dump to put multiple volumes on a single tape? > tar is fine for getting a directory and its contents, but for anything > more complex, it's much harder to live with. cpio and dump are both > able to back up a directory without its contents, which is important if > yo

RE: backup scripts

2003-05-29 Thread Ryan D. Egeland
t; ;-) > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Messmer > > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 9:05 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: backup scripts > > > > >

RE: backup scripts

2003-05-29 Thread Daevid Vincent
nemployed and would love any offers for coding work with PHP, Linux, SQL, etc... ;-) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Messmer > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 9:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re:

Re: backup scripts

2003-05-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
Richard Humphrey wrote: Is anyone using another method (cpio,dump etc) I use cpio and this script: http://phantom.dragonsdawn.net/~gordon/backup/backup and which do you prefer and why? tar is fine for getting a directory and its contents, but for anything more complex, it's much harder to live wit

Re: backup scripts

2003-05-29 Thread Thierry ITTY
on small sized servers, we run every day a script which - decides files to backup - creates an archive - makes an iso image - burns a cd (or a dvd) flat files are either taken as a whole (tar -zcvf ...) or depending on their last update (find -xtime -x ...| cpio ...), databases are exported/dumped

Re: backup scripts

2003-05-29 Thread Andrew Williams
I used amanda for a year or so to do just what you want. It's not terribly difficult to setup (the first few tries are frustrating but eventually a light will come on and all will make sense) The only bad thing about amanda (and the reason I stopped using it) is that it won't span a single volume

Re: backup scripts

2003-05-29 Thread Stéphane Jourdan
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 16:18, Richard Humphrey wrote: > Currently we are using tar (extremely simple script) to back up some > files to tape. I know this is probably not the best way of doing it. Is > anyone using another method (cpio,dump etc) and which do you prefer and > why? Any examples of scri

backup scripts

2003-05-29 Thread Richard Humphrey
Currently we are using tar (extremely simple script) to back up some files to tape. I know this is probably not the best way of doing it. Is anyone using another method (cpio,dump etc) and which do you prefer and why? Any examples of scripts using these methods would be helpful as well. I would lik