Thank you very much for your answer. If I do like this : " tar -cvf /dev/st0 /home " , does tar overwrite on the tape automatically or just does appending on the tape cartridge ? Thanks my friend. --- Rob Freeman wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: "Prabu Subroto" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 6:12 AM Subject: [SLE] unattended backup with KDat

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Dear my friends...

I used "taper" for unattended back up on a tape cartridge. But I found that this software does not work sometimes.

My server does backup on 20 o'clock every day. with taper and triggered by the crond.

Now I want to use KDat. It works nicely. But I don't know how to use this software to do unattended and automatic backup every 20 o'clock. Can KDat do unattended backup?

Anybody can suggest me a backup software belong to open software?

Thank you very much.

A simple tar command in a script in cron can do this.

tar cvf /dev/st0 /files for example. You will need to change where your tape drive in located and what you want to backup.

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If I do like this below in cron task: " 0 20 * * * tar cvf /dev/st0 /home /srv/www/htdocs " Will it do the backup every 20 o'clock? And what are the names of the files as the backup result with tar? is it only a single name of file or it will be the same as the original file name but only with "tar" at the end of the backup result? for example is the is "one.sxw" it will be "one.sxw.tar" ? And how should I execute restore? Can I do like this : " tar -xvf /dev/st0 "? Thank you very much in advance. --- Rob Freeman wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: "Prabu Subroto" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 6:12 AM Subject: [SLE] unattended backup with KDat

...

Dear my friends...

I used "taper" for unattended back up on a tape cartridge. But I found that this software does not work sometimes.

My server does backup on 20 o'clock every day. with taper and triggered by the crond.

Now I want to use KDat. It works nicely. But I don't know how to use this software to do unattended and automatic backup every 20 o'clock. Can KDat do unattended backup?

Anybody can suggest me a backup software belong to open software?

Thank you very much.

A simple tar command in a script in cron can do this.

tar cvf /dev/st0 /files for example. You will need to change where your tape drive in located and what you want to backup.

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Wowwwww.............!!! You're cool man... thanks..... It's solved, my friend.... once again, thanks Rob.... --- Rob Freeman wrote:

There are a lot of helpful sites on the internet about tar. Google is your friend, but here are a few:

http://lantech.geekvenue.net/chucktips/jason/chuck/994016279/index_html

http://www-jerry.oit.duke.edu/linux/bluedevil/HOWTO/backups_howto.html

Many more that I saw then this.

You could also write a script to perform the backup and then check what is on the tape after the backup. Something like:

tar cvf /dev/st0 /home /srv/www/htdocs > /tmp/backup.log

tar tvf /dev/st0 >> /tmp/backup.log

This is just off the top of my head, so the above might need a little tweaking.

Rob

----- Original Message ----- From: "Prabu Subroto" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 8:57 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] unattended backup with KDat (next quest.)

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If I do like this below in cron task: " 0 20 * * * tar cvf /dev/st0 /home /srv/www/htdocs "

Will it do the backup every 20 o'clock? And what are the names of the files as the backup result with tar? is it only a single name of file or it will be the same as the original file name but only with "tar" at the end of the backup result? for example is the is "one.sxw" it will be "one.sxw.tar" ?

And how should I execute restore? Can I do like this : " tar -xvf /dev/st0 "?

Thank you very much in advance. --- Rob Freeman wrote:

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Prabu Subroto" To: Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 6:12 AM Subject: [SLE] unattended backup with KDat

...

Dear my friends...

I used "taper" for unattended back up on a

tape

...

...

cartridge. But I found that this software does not work sometimes.

My server does backup on 20 o'clock every day. with taper and triggered by the crond.

Now I want to use KDat. It works nicely. But I don't know how to use this software to do unattended and automatic backup every 20 o'clock. Can KDat do unattended backup?

Anybody can suggest me a backup software belong to open software?

Thank you very much.

A simple tar command in a script in cron can do this.

tar cvf /dev/st0 /files for example. You will need to change where your tape drive in located and what you want to backup.

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