Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[Intrusion Detection Account 000 <ids000@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Kenneth,

Thank you vey much for the help abd assistance in recommending Microlite
BackupEdge.

I found another sophisticated application 'cpio' however due to its lack
of GUI and complex switchers and syntak - this is of likke help right
now

If you have the time, perhaps in a private email are you able to shed
some light on the above win a private email.

It was a difficult ask and only probable a few would understand fault
tolerance.

At other times I have buck copies my working PC to an NFS Drive and
similar things have happened as not even Konqueror seems not to have a
verify option and  things sometimes happen.

I really am not after a file compare option to test files copies/written
so. I need to further my understanding of the O/S I am now committed to
and devotes countess hours of reading new material to learn.

Just if you have time. It helps me along the road with a new O/S and
stops me feeling quite so inadequate in a new environment.

You probable have guessed I have been around for a long time by now in
IT now arrox 25 years.

I am happy if the explanation is a bunch of URL's and you write to me
personally rather than clog the list of a high level descurrion

Kind Regards

Scott


On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 23:28 -0500, Kenneth Schneider wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 14:14 +1000, Intrusion Detection Account 000
> wrote:
> > Ken you may be the only one who can shed any light on my question as
> > it is difficult and needs an answer from a long standing UNIX/Linux
> > user.
> > That being said anyone else who knows the answer or can contribute
> > please jump in
> > 
> > Linux coming from a Unix Server now being a desktop solution I was
> > wondering what fault tolerance there is in respect to verifying reads
> > and writes to the HDD or NFS Server.
> > 
> > Some server O/S employ HOTFIX to ensure a file is written correctly to
> > the hard Disk and Transitional Tracking.
> > 
> > Are any of these left over in a Linux Workstation. This goes with my
> > question about verification of files.
> > 
> > I was faithfully backing up my /home directory and sub-directories and
> > list my entire system which was my fault and a long story. When it
> > came to recover the backup achieve the achieve header had been
> > corrupted. I used KDAR to do the backup and it has no verify options
> > and KDAR could not read the achieve file.
> > 
> > My question to you is are there in inbuilt file integrity listed above
> > to ensure every write and read are performed actually and checked by
> > any O/S fault tolerance systems
> > 
> 
> I tried to use kdar and had nothing but problems with it. I think the
> problems you experienced are with the application kdar and not with the
> linux system it self. If _reliable_ backups are a must I suggest using a
> commercial backup program like Microlite BackupEdge. It employs good
> verification to ensure a reliable backup has been preformed. You can
> download a 60 day eval for free to test.
>