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Sean Akers

1 Jun 2001 1 Jun '01

08:37

You could try using tar. That's what I use. No bells, no whistles, it just works. I've tried other progs myself but always end up coming back to tar. Sean. Augusto 01/06/2001 07:04 To: cc: Subject: [SLE] Nice program to make tape backups & mirroring Hi ! Does anyone know a good program for making backups in suse 7.1 pro version?. We have a HP Surestore (blabla)24 (24GB) at work and i'm currently doing the backups with dump.... i tried to make them with amanda but is quite complex... Another question... is it a way of mirroring 2 IDE disks? (without ide raid) TIA Augusto

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Mark Hounschell

1 Jun 1 Jun

09:54

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Sean Akers wrote:

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You could try using tar. That's what I use. No bells, no whistles, it just works. I've tried other progs myself but always end up coming back to tar.

Actually gnu tar has many bells and wistles when compared to anu other unix tar. Once found I never left. -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com

Gerhard den Hollander

10:53

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* Mark Hounschell (Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 05:54:46AM -0400)

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Sean Akers wrote:

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You could try using tar. That's what I use. No bells, no whistles, it just works. I've tried other progs myself but always end up coming back to tar.

Actually gnu tar has many bells and wistles when compared to anu other unix tar.

Amanda (on top of gnutar) rocks. (www.amanda.org) freeware, excellent help on their mailinglist. I've got about 1T of disks (spread out over 2 offices 1 here, 1 in the UK) using amanda, and have had no reason to complain (yet ;) ) ) Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515 Global Technical Support Fax +31-10.280.1511 Jason Geosystems BV (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1) gdenhollander@jasongeo.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.jasongeo.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands This e-mail and any attachment is/are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and may contain information that is confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, we request that you do not disseminate, forward, distribute or copy this e-mail message. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and destroy the original message.

wilson＠claborn.net

15:42

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At 12:53 PM 6/1/2001 +0200, you wrote:

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Amanda (on top of gnutar) rocks. (www.amanda.org) freeware, excellent help on their mailinglist. I've got about 1T of disks (spread out over 2 offices 1 here, 1 in the UK) using amanda, and have had no reason to complain (yet ;) ) )

Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515

Can amanda back up to a second disk instead of to a tape? Considering the price of hard drives these days, we'd really like to use disks here instead of tapes. At once point I thought I saw that Amanda supported that, but when I look on it's web site, I can't find any references to support for disk backup. ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com

Augusto

22:41

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You can backup things on hard disks too with amanda.. In the documentation look for "Holding Disk". If i remenber you can configure amanda to make an image of the backup that is going to be dumped to the tape. But it can be configured to only make the image on the disk. Augusto.. At 10:42 a.m. 01/06/01 -0500, Jonathan Wilson wrote:

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At 12:53 PM 6/1/2001 +0200, you wrote:

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Amanda (on top of gnutar) rocks. (www.amanda.org) freeware, excellent help on their mailinglist. I've got about 1T of disks (spread out over 2 offices 1 here, 1 in the UK) using amanda, and have had no reason to complain (yet ;) ) )

Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515

Can amanda back up to a second disk instead of to a tape? Considering the price of hard drives these days, we'd really like to use disks here instead of tapes. At once point I thought I saw that Amanda supported that, but when I look on it's web site, I can't find any references to support for disk backup.

---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator

Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com

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tabanna

11:57

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I've tried other progs myself but always end up coming back to tar.

Backing up to another disk, this work fine for me :- tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt; tar xvf - ) -- best wishes --- ____________ sent on Linux ___________

Augusto

22:27

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The problem with tar is that if a disc gets corrupted or justs blows... you have to install suse.. and then make the restore (remember that a fresh suse 7.1 pro takes a looooong loooooong time ....and the you have to restore the tar..... currently im doing something like this. "dump -L backup -0 /" (dump uses per default /dev/st0 to dump the data...) if something goes bad i belive that a full restore can by made with "restore" (hope). At 09:37 a.m. 01/06/01 +0100, Sean Akers wrote:

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You could try using tar. That's what I use. No bells, no whistles, it just works. I've tried other progs myself but always end up coming back to tar.

Sean.

Augusto 01/06/2001 07:04

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Hi !

Does anyone know a good program for making backups in suse 7.1 pro version?. We have a HP Surestore (blabla)24 (24GB) at work and i'm currently doing the backups with dump.... i tried to make them with amanda but is quite complex...

Another question... is it a way of mirroring 2 IDE disks? (without ide raid)

TIA

Augusto

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Mark Hounschell

2 Jun 2 Jun

08:35

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Augusto wrote:

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The problem with tar is that if a disc gets corrupted or justs blows... you have to install suse.. and then make the restore (remember that a fresh suse 7.1 pro takes a looooong loooooong time ....and the you have to restore the tar.....

No that is not correect. What you do is break out the cd's and boot into rescue mode. There you are running linux from a memory disc and can pretty much do whatever you want (command line only and no reisser 3.6). I do this often and it works VERY well under all circumstanses. It takes about 60 seconds to get there. Just hit abort install at your first chance and go to rescue mode. -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com

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