I've had pretty good results with tob (command-line) and inconsistent
results with taper (earlier versions seemed to work better than the
later ones).
I've got to figure out how to put it on a floppy also.
Bob
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 01:35:22PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello, I'd like to ask people what there preffered backup program/app is
> under Linux.
>
> I have a Exabyte 8mm, 2gb drive in one of my linux boxes at home. I'd like to
> use it do backups of my systems here. I have 2 intel boxes running linux
> and one sparc, they are all connected via 10mb ethernet.
> The machine with the tape drive in is running redhat 5.2 with 2.0.35 kernel.
> I'd like to backup /home /usr/local /var /root /etc on each machine maybe
> a full backup each month and incremental each week or so?
>
> What do you recommend I use, is there anything freely available like bru which
> performs a verify of the archive once it has done.
>
> I'd also like to integrate this into a rescue type boot floppy so I can
> get my systems back online quickly should the worst happen.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mike
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