On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:20:38 -0700 Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The VMS backup facility did this correctly -- you took a full backup > once a month and incrementals every day (this was back in the days where > 9 track tape was most common). If you had a disk crash, you did a Back in my old DOS days, I had a Mountain Filesafe 'qic' type drive, and my working set was just a tad over 1 tape's length - so I had to use two tapes to do the backup. But what I ended up doing was to run incremental backups daily, appending each to the end of the second tape until I ran out of room, upon which I would do another full backup. My 2 cents - there is some good backup software out there, but if you can cobble something together with 'tar' or some other standard tool, you might be better off - especially when you have to do a full restore. Of course, you have to have enough of the system loaded in order to operate the software (i.e., if it's an X based solution, you need X running in addition to your backup software). But tar can fit on a floppy. Alternatively you might explore backup solutions that present themselves on live cd/dvds - that way you only need to boot the cd and restore your backups. Just having purchased a DVD writer, I'm tempted to try growisofs as a backup tool and just send my backups to rewriteable DVDs as my /home is just about the same size as a single-layer DVD. It should be much faster than DAT at least on my system, which is what I was using previously. > Dave Carrigan > Seattle, WA, USA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 > UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
