jimmy Pierre wrote:

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'find -newer' and cpio.

Thanks Per,

Any particular order? And, do you use a batch file in CRON or both?

Something like this: cd <dir to be backed up> find . -newer lastbackup | \ tee lastbackup | cpio --create -H tar --block-size=128 | \ bzip2 -c >backup.bz2 I run this (and the rest of the script) via cron : MAILTO=zink.anode@enidan.com 0 2 * * 1,2,3,4,5,6 root <script> <directory> 0 2 * * 0 root <script> <directory> full When I run the full backup, I just touch the lastbackup file with timestamp=19700101000000. /Per Jessen, Zürich

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

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Something like this:

cd <dir to be backed up> find . -newer lastbackup | \ tee lastbackup | cpio --create -H tar --block-size=128 | \ bzip2 -c >backup.bz2

why not just

... | tee lastbackup | tar -T- --no-r -cvjf backup.tbz2

then?

No particular reason - I've just always used cpio. I didn't even know tar had the -T option. /Per Jessen, Zürich

On 9/21/06, Mike Noble wrote:

I have used dump (ufsdump for Solaris) for years. The basic syntax to do a full backup is:

dump 0f <dump device> <filesystem>

Dump Device can be a tape device, filename, etc. The file system is whatever file system you want to dump. You can either specify by the device (/dev/hda1) or by the name ( / ).

You can write a script to dump all file systems on your system, something like this:

---cut--- !#/bin/sh

FS="/dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3"

for f in $FS; do dump 0f /dev/nrst0 $f done ----cut---

In this case I used /dev/nrst0 as the dump device, the n specifies no rewind and rst0 is a tape device.

Mike

jimmy Pierre wrote:

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Greetings,

Does anybody run batch files with a "dump" of the system? f yes what exactly do you use.

Cheers, Jimmy

-- You need to verify that dump is not filesystem type specific.

I use XFS primarily for my data and it comes with xfsdump. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century

Thanks Per, Mike, Greg and Jan for your input. I appreciate that. Cheers, Jimmy Www.nui.fr