Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 12:38:27 -0500 From: "Paul D . Schmidt" <pds@uberhacker.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: backup method reccommendation? Message-ID: <19991009123827.E12733@uberhacker.org>
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Hi, I recently bought an HP SureStore 5000eU tape drive and I'm trying to come up with a good method for backing up my system. I was reading about dump/restore, but a dump backup couldn't be used to restore from a 3.2 system to a 3.3 system, which is one of the reasons I need to do it... I thought about using tar, then I can just tar everything up and then selectively restore files or directory trees....but I'm a bit confused about the multi-volume aspect of tar....would the following command line prompt me to change tapes after it has backed up 2GB? (and keep going thru as many tapes as it needs?) tar cvplML 1930 / ? (I did some experiments and it uses the tape drive properly w/o an f arg) Also, I would need to do something like mt rewind before starting my backup, correct? Since you have to explicitly state the tape size on the command line I'm assuming I have to pretend the hardware compression isn't there and just use the maximum guaranteed size of 2GB as opposed to "up to 4GB"? I looked in the handbook, but it only gives a VERY high level blurb about backups and doesn't provide any full solutions....does anyone have any advice or URLs that talk about full backup impementations from command lines to tape rotation techniques? Thanks, Paul -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul D. Schmidt <pds@uberhacker.org> UNIX Systems Programmer FreeBSD Advocate "Trust the computer industry to shorten 'Year 2000' to 'Y2K.' It was this kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place." -Anonymous =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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