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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:55:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Duvall <maillist@coastsight.com>
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Subject: Re: Backup and Verify
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Even a compare would be nice, not just a verify....

Thanks...

Sincerely,

Rick Duvall

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Rick Duvall wrote:

> What is the best way to back up a FreeBSD system to tape and verify the
> backup.  I have been trying with dump, but I don't know of any way to
> verify that.  Then, I tried tar with the -W option, and that didn't work
> (guess my tape drive doesn't support it).  Amanda won't work for us
> because I find it isn't really designed for a single box, but rather for
> backing up and restoring multiple boxes, AND it's too difficult for the
> average ordinary layman to do a disaster recovery with Amanda on a totally
> dead system.
> 
> Here are my requirements:
> 
> * Backups must be done on the live system (single machine with a tape
> drive)
> 
> * Backups must be level 0 every time, and must be verified. 
> 
> * Backups must be logged, especially the verify 
> 
> * After the verify, the tape must eject.
> 
> * Must have a disaster recovery solution so that if I get hit by a Mac
> Truck, the average joe blow can do the disaster recovery.  I prefer a
> bootable cd they can put in which will boot, and ask for the last tape,
> and will do the restore on a new hard drive, partition it and everything.  
> virtually no user input for disaster recovery.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Rick Duvall
> 
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