Hi,
I am getting to grips with using Flexbackup onto my USb had disk drive. Before i was just using the TAR command and archiving my /home directory onto the drive as a backup.tar.gz. This was fine but then I decided to try out Flexbackup, as I have in the past used SME Server for myself and a number of clients I do stuff for, and I know SME uses Flexbackup. I have some questions...
1, What I was trying to get my head round as does Flexbackup place its own version of a TAR file onto the drive?
The file that is written is a standard tar/afio/cpio/dump file (depending on how you configured it), and probably compressed (again according to your configuration file). Flexbackup is just a script that makes everything easier. You could read those files without flexbackup, using tar/cpio/afio etc. From the web page FAQ's:
3.3. The disk totally died. How do I get flexbackup's archives off the tapes on a
machine without flexbackup or even perl installed?
Something like this, if using compression with tar/cpio/dump:dd if=/dev/tapedevice bs=10k | gzip -dc | tar xvf -
replace "tar xvf -" with "restore -i -f -" or whatever. Skip the gzip pipe if you aren't using compression. afio is a bit more complex, you might need something like:
afio -i -k -x -P bzip2 -Q -d -Z -v
Check the manpages for the archive utility you used...
2, Each time I do a full backup does it create a new file/archive?
If writing to disk, yes. IF writing to tape, I believe it overwrites that previous contents.
3, Why can I not mount the drive and inspect its contents?
You need to explain what you mean? You have to mount the USB drive in order to write your backups, so I'm confused as to what you are asking.
I was going to set up commands in my crontab to run levels fives six days out of seven and then then a full each sunday night.
is this a good way of doing things? Any comments from experienced users would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Rob.
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