Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:57:03 -0700 From: Jesse Robbins <jesse@nda.com> To: "Douglas K. Rand" <rand@meridian-enviro.com> Subject: Re: Budtool and FreeBSD... Message-ID: <19990414145703.A21684@taz.nda.com> In-Reply-To: <8790bu7u7q.fsf@deneb.meridian-enviro.com>; from Douglas K. Rand on Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 04:44:41PM -0500 References: <19990414115018.A18067@taz.nda.com> <8790bu7u7q.fsf@deneb.meridian-enviro.com>
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Hey,
Thanks for your response!
Did you have to edit the .budadmcl file as well to get this to work
If so, would you send me your METHOD_CLASS entry as well?
Thanks!
-jess
On %M 0, "Douglas K. Rand" <rand@meridian-enviro.com> wrote:
> Jesse> Anyone done or heard of a modification to budtool that allows
> Jesse> you to recognise and backup FreeBSD and/or Linux systems???
>
> You can setup BudTool to do backups of FreeBSD and Linux systems, but
> you won't have any file history. Here is our entry in .budcl for Linux:
>
>
> <CLASS "dump.Linux"
> ACTIVE TRUE
> BACKUP "/sbin/dump ${BT_REQ_LEVEL}bfu 128 - ${filesystem}"
> TOC ""
> RTRV "/sbin/restore xf - ${BT_EXTRACT_FILELIST}"
> DAR ""
> BUFILT "dump"
> LEVELS 9
> SPLIT NO
> <CLASS-FIELD "filesystem"
> LABEL "File System:"
> HELP "budtool:dumpfilesystem"
> TYPE TEXT
> XPOS 20
> YPOS 0
> WIDTH 30
> VALUE ""
> VALID "fscheck"
> >
> >
>
> For FreeBSD just change the paths to dump and restore and you should be fine.
>
> But if possible I'd recommend using Amanda instead. I've used BudTool
> in the past but at a new installation we are using Amanda
> (http://www.amanda.org) instead. Amanda will get you file histories
> for your Linux and FreeBSD boxes while BudTool won't. (I've been
> beating on them for this for years.)
>
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