Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:47:06 -0600 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for a Good FreeBSD and General Unix Backup System Message-ID: <200902020247.n122l6el094823@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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After all the good suggestions by several people from this list, I think we will go with dump and restore. I used to use dump around ten years ago when our departmental Unix work station was a Sun and I don't ever remember it letting us down, even after something dreadful happened to the main drive and I had to rebuild it. There turns out to be a dump package for Linux which should give us the coverage we were looking for. The scripts I set up for doing backups are much smaller and easier to maintain with dump with the idea being that a shell script determines whether this is week 1 through 5 in a given month. The first day of that week is Level 0 followed by 6 more levels until we start another week such that the path to a backup looks like 02-1/systemname/systemname_0 systemname_1 and so forth. The defaults appear to be slightly different between the bsd dump and Linux's dump, but it wasn't difficult to get both to dump one volume containing all the inodes to a file which is actually a named pipe on the backup server. Many thanks to all. Martin McCormick
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