On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:30:54PM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote: >Douglas J Hunley wrote: > >> All righty.. what is everyone using for their backups? I'm currently using >> Arkeia and while it's OK, I just know theres something "better" out there. >> So, who's using what? I want unattended, robust, stable operation. I'm using >> a Seagate DDs2 drive to do the backups (SCSI). >> Thanks >> > >Pardon my ignorance, but is it bad to just use dump to backup data? Or tar?
Only if you have to do a complete recovery of the system from cold iron. Another thing many people forget to do is to fully verify all backups. Back in the days of the Colorado Memory Systems Junko tape drives, it wasn't uncommon for them to make unreadable backups yet say everything was fine. It's a real nasty surprise to find your ``good'' backups aren't. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. -- The Best of Will Rogers _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
