On Friday 14 February 2003 6:02 am, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
I'm now running my main box on Linux more than on Windows. My daily backups seem problematic, though. [...]
This isn't an exact answer, but a couple of things to consider. One of the guys in my linux group, Mike Rubel, wrote up a method of using rsynch that got a lot of attention (he got slashdotted over it) The writeup is here: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ This essentially does "incremental" backups, at any desired frequency [he runs his at every 4 hours] to disk. At first, this might not seem to be "the answer" to your problem since the files are still "on disk", not "on tape" or otherwise "offsite/off-this-machine", but this can be done over a network [in fact, he backs up his roommate's windows computer at the same time] Once the snapshots are built, they can be archived on tape, CD, or what-have-you using tar as mentioned previously in this thread [in fact, you probably could use cp or dd against the devices/partitiions, but that is getting VERY esoteric ;) ] On the commercial side of things, there is Arkiea (probably spelled wrong) which I've used -- it is a little cumbersome, but once you've got things "arranged" properly, it seems to work [I was able to back up 80 gigs data over the network from a windows client to a DLT drive -- took all day, but it worked...] I believe you can still get the "free" version [lets you back up two "clients" per server] which is actually the previous release of the software. -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net