Well i use Yusuf Nagree's taper to back up to tape..... do you have any suggestions for taper users ? Regards Anurag ----- At 11:37 AM 7/26/00 -0700, Dirk Janssen wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Anurag Jalan wrote:
I would like to know... how best to restore my present system in case of a HD crash or something ........
that completely depends on how you make your backups. I use dump, which is a rather dumb but useful tool for this. Dump makes incremental backups (every morning) and full backups (every Sunday) of my user space. When the system was new, I wiped the user space and used the `restore' program to test the dump. Everything worked fine.
FYI here is my crontab script that runs the dumps. --------- MAILTO=dirkj@u.arizona.edu 00 04 * * Mon /sbin/dump 9uf - /home/dirkj | /bin/gzip -9 | su dirkj -c '/usr/bin/ssh $BKHOST cat -\> dump-9-monday' 00 04 * * Tue /sbin/dump 8uf - /home/dirkj | /bin/gzip -9 | su dirkj -c '/usr/bin/ssh $BKHOST cat -\> dump-8-tuesday ' [.. etc ..] 00 04 * * Sun /sbin/dump 0uf - /home/dirkj | /bin/gzip -9 | su dirkj -c '/usr/bin/ssh $BKHOST cat -\> dump-0....
BKHOST is the host I backup too (a file server), fill in something useful after the dots so your full backups (level 0) don't overwrite each other. Also, add some commands to remove old dumps. The `su -' bit is there because I don't want to ssh to my BKHOST as root (and I cannot, for that matter). This crontab is run as root, because it also handles other backup things that user dirkj can't reach.
If you have a tape drive, you can dump directly to that and remove all the ssh stuff.
YMMV but good luck, Dirk
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