Re: [Fwd: RedHat recommended backup technology]

2003-06-12 Thread Brad
You may also like to investigate rsync. It is very fast and is perfect for backing up over a network to another hard drive. I use it to back up a 24x7 file server 4 times per day. It happens on the fly in the background and it only transfers the parts of the file(s) that have changed - hence

Re: [Fwd: RedHat recommended backup technology]

2003-06-12 Thread Zoki
Le 10/06/2003 14:19, « Luciano Rabelo » [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : What is a good way to backing up a file system? *** Without the required details which should always be included in a question to this and any other list except the ones covering Windows, I would say: tar cvpPzf

Re: [Fwd: RedHat recommended backup technology]

2003-06-11 Thread Luciano Rabelo
Thanks Jonathan! I want to backup on a DLT tape drive, for example, the /usr filesystem without backing up any filesystems mounted below it. [] Luciano Rabelo Jonathan Bartlett wrote: How you want to back up depends on several things: * What kind of data do you want to backup? Databases

Re: [Fwd: RedHat recommended backup technology]

2003-06-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Luciano Rabelo wrote: Thanks Jonathan! I want to backup on a DLT tape drive, for example, the /usr filesystem without backing up any filesystems mounted below it. for something that straightforward, why not just use a combination of tar and gzip or bunzip2? you can

Re: [Fwd: RedHat recommended backup technology]

2003-06-11 Thread Luciano Rabelo
because if I use tar to backup the /abc filesystem I will backup the /abc/xyz filesystem too. but I don't want it. Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Luciano Rabelo wrote: Thanks Jonathan! I want to backup on a DLT tape drive, for example, the /usr filesystem without backing up any

Re: [Fwd: RedHat recommended backup technology]

2003-06-11 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
Not if you use the --one-file-system switch. Jon On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Luciano Rabelo wrote: because if I use tar to backup the /abc filesystem I will backup the /abc/xyz filesystem too. but I don't want it. Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Luciano Rabelo wrote: Thanks

Re: [Fwd: RedHat recommended backup technology]

2003-06-11 Thread Luciano Rabelo
I didn't know that (I think I don't have this option in Tru64 Unix). Thanks Jonathan, I will try it. Jonathan Bartlett wrote: Not if you use the --one-file-system switch. Jon On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Luciano Rabelo wrote: because if I use tar to backup the /abc filesystem I will backup the

Re: [Fwd: RedHat recommended backup technology]

2003-06-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Luciano Rabelo wrote: I didn't know that (I think I don't have this option in Tru64 Unix). Thanks Jonathan, I will try it. Jonathan Bartlett wrote: Not if you use the --one-file-system switch. if not, just replace your stock version of tar with GNU tar. GNU tar is

[Fwd: RedHat recommended backup technology]

2003-06-10 Thread Luciano Rabelo
What is a good way to backing up a file system? Original Message Subject: RedHat recommended backup technology Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:49:08 -192 From: Boozy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Boozy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone! I'm a IBM

Re: [Fwd: RedHat recommended backup technology]

2003-06-10 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
How you want to back up depends on several things: * What kind of data do you want to backup? Databases and similar data stores have to have their own specialized backup procedure * How many systems are you backing up? This will determine if you want an individual system or a networked

Re: [Fwd: RedHat recommended backup technology]

2003-06-10 Thread Wendell MacKenzie
Check out Arkeia... On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 09:19, Luciano Rabelo wrote: What is a good way to backing up a file system? Original Message Subject: RedHat recommended backup technology Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:49:08 -192 From: Boozy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Boozy [EMAIL