Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:55:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Duvall <maillist@coastsight.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup and Verify Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104170955280.51494-100000@ns1.coastsight.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104170938550.51494-100000@ns1.coastsight.com>
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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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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