I have been using Linux (SuSE 8.2) for about two months. I need to backup my data. I have looked everywhere I can think of and have not been able to find simple (newbie-level) instructions on how to back up anything. I did find tar and that will work, I suppose, but it has a LOT of options. I thought I saw a gui program either in KDE or Gnome when I first installed Linux but I can't find it now. Would anyone like to take this newbie under his wing and earn his eternal gratitude? :-) Don Henson
command: tar -cf mybackup.tar /home/myname packs your home dir to one file mybackup.tar. Extraction should be tar -xf mybackup.tar By Marek On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Donald Henson wrote:
I have been using Linux (SuSE 8.2) for about two months. I need to backup my data. I have looked everywhere I can think of and have not been able to find simple (newbie-level) instructions on how to back up anything. I did find tar and that will work, I suppose, but it has a LOT of options. I thought I saw a gui program either in KDE or Gnome when I first installed Linux but I can't find it now. Would anyone like to take this newbie under his wing and earn his eternal gratitude? :-)
Don Henson
The 03.10.17 at 15:22, Marek Libra wrote:
command:
tar -cf mybackup.tar /home/myname
packs your home dir to one file mybackup.tar.
And for the lazy, mc (midnight commander). Under menu F2, there is an entry to tar gz and entire directory. It can also browse a tar.gz file, or even an rpm. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
I have used tar for 15 years and its always been great. I suugest you pick up a copy of 'Unix Powertools" (Wiley & Sons ??). It should help you with practical real-life techniques for this sort of thing. Good luck.. On 17 Oct 2003 07:13:39 -0600 Donald Henson <wepin@wepin.com> wrote:
I have been using Linux (SuSE 8.2) for about two months. I need to backup my data. I have looked everywhere I can think of and have not been able to find simple (newbie-level) instructions on how to back up anything. I did find tar and that will work, I suppose, but it has a LOT of options. I thought I saw a gui program either in KDE or Gnome when I first installed Linux but I can't find it now. Would anyone like to take this newbie under his wing and earn his eternal gratitude? :-)
Don Henson
On Friday 17 October 2003 09:13, Donald Henson wrote:
I have been using Linux (SuSE 8.2) for about two months. I need to backup my data. I have looked everywhere I can think of and have not been able to find simple (newbie-level) instructions on how to back up anything. I did find tar and that will work, I suppose, but it has a LOT of options. I thought I saw a gui program either in KDE or Gnome when I first installed Linux but I can't find it now. Would anyone like to take this newbie under his wing and earn his eternal gratitude? :-)
Don Henson
You might try System->Tools->ARK or System->Filesystem Tools->Karchiver either of these will work pretty easily......
On 10/17/2003 09:13 PM, Donald Henson wrote:
I have been using Linux (SuSE 8.2) for about two months. I need to backup my data. I have looked everywhere I can think of and have not been able to find simple (newbie-level) instructions on how to back up anything. I did find tar and that will work, I suppose, but it has a LOT of options. I thought I saw a gui program either in KDE or Gnome when I first installed Linux but I can't find it now. Would anyone like to take this newbie under his wing and earn his eternal gratitude?
Try Yast, System, Backup. It will make files you can burn to cds for a cdr backup. Check it out. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
Donald: tar is always a good choice but there is more to backup. Try these references 1. LINUX Administration Handbook by Evi Nemith, et. al. ISBN0-13-008466-2, $49.99 U. S. ----chapter 10 page 159, Quickly useable with some distribution specific comments. Covers many subjects useful to admins with both background and practical advise. 2. UNIX Backup and Recovery by W. Curtis Preston, ISBN: 1-56592-642-0, $36.95 U.S. ----Chapters 1 -> 4, 8,18,19 plus those related to databases you are running. Very detailed with multiple references Combine those two books and think about recovery when a server completely crashes and burns. Try looking for used book sellers as you buy more books it gets expensive. Watch out for old editions being represented as the latest. As long as the words of a book are still good it will not matter that if it is a used book. Donald Henson wrote:
I have been using Linux (SuSE 8.2) for about two months. I need to backup my data. I have looked everywhere I can think of and have not been able to find simple (newbie-level) instructions on how to back up anything. I did find tar and that will work, I suppose, but it has a LOT of options. I thought I saw a gui program either in KDE or Gnome when I first installed Linux but I can't find it now. Would anyone like to take this newbie under his wing and earn his eternal gratitude? :-)
Don Henson
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I want to thank all of you who responded. I have several avenues to explore now so I will go back into lurker mode while I digest some of it. Thanks again. Don Henson
Donald Henson wrote:
I have been using Linux (SuSE 8.2) for about two months. I need to backup my data. I have looked everywhere I can think of and have not been able to find simple (newbie-level) instructions on how to back up anything. I did find tar and that will work, I suppose, but it has a LOT of options. I thought I saw a gui program either in KDE or Gnome when I first installed Linux but I can't find it now. Would anyone like to take this newbie under his wing and earn his eternal gratitude? :-)
Don Henson
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* Fri, 17 Oct 2003, wepin@wepin.com:
I want to thank all of you who responded. I have several avenues to explore now so I will go back into lurker mode while I digest some of it. Thanks again.
A raw tarball ie easy to make, yes, but if you need to get files back in a hurry, without any index or easy way to search the archives then you wish you'd have thought about a more future-looking application. There are lots of good backup utils to be found on e.g. freshmeat, I found the 'backup2l' perl script very handy and reliable. It knows about levels (lvl 1 for full, lvl 2 and 3 for diffs e.g.), makes good indexes, can execute commands before- and after the backup (e.g. to stop and start MySQL prior to a mysqldump) and mails you wrt the status of the backup. If you want a more graphical backup program then Arkeia has a client/server (free for home use with 3 boxes max) that can be used from a X11 program, or from within a script or from the shell. This support lots of different hardware and tapes, or can use a HDD file. One more thing: please adhere to the common usage of this list, and post your reply /below/ the quoted text, and also remove the parts of the quoted text that are not relevant to your reply. This keeps discussions readable while they're being held, and, just as (or maybe even more) important, keeps them readable in the archive when someone looks for clues without asking the same question on the list again. If you'd do this for no other reason then to be polite to other listmembers then that's fine aswell. Thanks. HTH, Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. SuSE 8.2 x86 Kernel k_Athlon 2.4.20-4GB See headers for PGP/GPG info.
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 04:14, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
There are lots of good backup utils to be found on e.g. freshmeat, I found the 'backup2l' perl script very handy and reliable. It knows about levels (lvl 1 for full, lvl 2 and 3 for diffs e.g.), makes good indexes, can execute commands before- and after the backup (e.g. to stop and start MySQL prior to a mysqldump) and mails you wrt the status of the backup. If you want a more graphical backup program then Arkeia has a client/server (free for home use with 3 boxes max) that can be used from a X11 program, or from within a script or from the shell. This support lots of different hardware and tapes, or can use a HDD file.
Thanks for the pointers to other backup solutions.
One more thing: please adhere to the common usage of this list, and post your reply /below/ the quoted text, and also remove the parts of the quoted text that are not relevant to your reply.
I've been involved in many debates about the "reply at top" vs "reply at bottom". It seems to generate almost as much heat as Windows vs Linux. However, I actually prefer replying at the bottom so I will do it that way from now on, even though it is not obvious to the casual reader that this is common usage on this list. Don Henson
* Donald Henson <wepin@wepin.com> [10-19-03 07:52]:
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 04:14, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
One more thing: please adhere to the common usage of this list, and post your reply /below/ the quoted text, and also remove the parts of the quoted text that are not relevant to your reply.
I've been involved in many debates about the "reply at top" vs "reply at bottom". It seems to generate almost as much heat as Windows vs Linux. However, I actually prefer replying at the bottom so I will do it that way from now on, even though it is not obvious to the casual reader that this is common usage on this list.
Thank you. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
On Friday 17 October 2003 13:13, Donald Henson wrote:
how to back up anything. I did find tar and that will work, I suppose, but it has a LOT of options
I use "RSYNC" regularly, throughout the day, to back up my /home to another partition. ............................ I use "CRON" to do tar backups of /etc /home & /var with the the following tiny scripts, at : 06:02 06:12 06:22 & 16:02 16:12 16:22 "cronetc" ................... #!/bin/sh # backup /etc /root /boot /usr/local # exec tar czvf /bup/etc`date +%y%m%d`.tar.gz /etc /root /boot /usr/local "cronhome" ....................... #!/bin/sh # backup /home # exec tar czvf /bup/home`date +%y%m%d`.tar.gz /home "cronvar" ................... #!/bin/sh # backup /var # exec tar czvf /bup/var`date +%y%m%d`.tar.gz /var/named /var/cron/tabs / var/spool/mail /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/greek .................................... best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________
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participants (11)
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Carlos E. R. -
Donald Henson -
J Lake -
Joe Dufresne -
Joe Morris (NTM) -
John S. Wolter -
Marek Libra -
Michael Hieb -
Patrick Shanahan -
pinto -
Theo v. Werkhoven