Jay MacDonald said: > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 11:36, Eric Robinson wrote: >> What's the best way to backup a Linux server to tape? I use a >> commercial product (CTAR) for my AIX box and I'm pretty happy with it. >> But when I think Linux, I think *free.* Any ideas? > > tar
dump (though not recommened by Linus) is what I use. tar and cpio are other options. A note about dump -- it'll back up any file, even one in use, and is faster than tar when backing up to tape. A good reference for (free) backup options is here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/backup-basics.html (yeah, it says freebsd, but everything said there will work with Linux too) Mark -- Mark C. Ballew [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sublinear.net http://markballew.com PGP: 0xB2A33008 ICQ: 839986 Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. --Napoleon _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
