Cron and tar. Tar can also do incremental backups, but if you can fit the whole system on one tape, no need to do incremental, unless speed is a factor.
Please forgive a Linux newbie's ignorance on this one. Tar can do backups to a Travan tape? I'm really impressed. What do I need to do to set it up?
Thanks much. ---Michael
I think it can do travan tapes. I've only worked with scsi dat tapes. If you have it hooked up, and the kernel finds it and gives it a name such as /dev/st0 (check /var/log/boot.msg), then you just have to do:
tar pcvbf 20 /dev/st0 PATH-TO-FILES-TO-BACKUP
if you want whole system backup do:
cd / tar pcvbf 20 /dev/st0 .
I have a SCSI travan, and yes, this is exactly how I use tar to backup to it. Josh
Put your commands in a script and make it executable, then setup cron to run the script at whatever times you want.
It wouldn't hurt to read the man on tar, theirs a billion ways to run it, and a blocking factor of 20 may not work for you.