RE: [Sheflug] Networked backup

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

It may be easier to adopt the Luddite approach and use good ol' tar - great 
advantage is that you only need a very minimal system to restore tar 
archives without faffing about with backup proggies.

I used to use Arkeia until the latest versions started refusing to resore 
full system backups - dir at a time ok, but not a full system restore. 
Pah!! I now mount the dirs I want to backup by nfs and simply tar to tape - 
the disadvantage of this is that access is serial, so if you want a file 
right at the end of the tape you've gotta wait, unless you use mt to 
segment the tape. The upside is that Ican just specify a file I want to 
restore and let tar go find it. If you're backing up to hdd then speed and 
seeking isn't an issue, plus you can browse the tarfile with, for instance, 
mc to open the tar files & copy stuff out without having to restore them 
first.

Right, I'm off to smash some looms.......

On Tuesday, May 23, 2000 1:44 PM, Jose Luis Gomez Dans 
[SMTP:j.l.gomez-dans [at] sheffield.ac.uk] wrote:
> Hi,
> 	Since we now have an (ever) growing collection of Linux/BSD
> servers in the lab, I thought it'd be nice to have some sort of
> networked backup facility, by which stuff is copied overnight to a host
> in our network, stays on the harddrive of that host and some of that
> stuff is actually backed up to a zip drive (the reason for this is that
> I can't be bothered changing disks, and most of the other data is
> already backed up in CDs in another room, being far too far to walk :D).
>
> 	Looking at debian packages, there's a certain afbackup that
> seems to do the trick, it's got a server and a client, but it looks as
> if it might be easier to print all the stuff out and type them in again
> in case of falldown :-/
>
> 	Regards,
> 	Jose
> --
> Jose L Gomez Dans			PhD student
> 					Radar & Communications Group
> 					Department of Electronic Engineering
> 					University of Sheffield UK


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