At 2003-10-14T18:56:45Z, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you're running 5.x, you can use dump -L, which will snapshot the
> filesystem and back that up.
True, but I can't vouch from personal experience whether that works as
expected, so I left it out.
--
Kirk Strauser
pgp0.pgp
In the last episode (Oct 14), Kirk Strauser said:
> At 2003-10-14T18:24:10Z, Mike Hogsett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > That can work, but I dont like using tar in place of dump.
>
> Various sources recommend using tar instead of dump on live
> filesystems. The essence of the argument is that du
At 2003-10-14T17:55:32Z, "Rick Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1. Each filesystem per system to be backed up qualifies as a dumpfile.
That's if and only if you use dump instead of tar. I use tar to back up
some large filesystems that have large amounts of incompressible video by
splitting
At 2003-10-14T18:24:10Z, Mike Hogsett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That can work, but I dont like using tar in place of dump.
Various sources recommend using tar instead of dump on live filesystems.
The essence of the argument is that dump writes the filelist at the
beginning of the backup, then
> The AMANDA docs suggest handling this situation by splitting the
> partition up into multiple tar dumps; each of which will fit on the
> tape. (I'm currently in the process of tweaking my configs to try this
> for one of my partitions.)
That can work, but I dont like using tar in place of dump
--On Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:55:32 -0700 Rick Duvall
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So to clarify just so that I understand correctly:
1. Each filesystem per system to be backed up qualifies as a dumpfile.
2. Multiple dumpfiles per backup
3. Multiple tapes per backup, as long as 1 dumpfile i
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> From: "Mike Hogsett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Rick Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:23 AM
> Subject: Re: Amanda or Bacula
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> > > Is this a choice of personal
--On Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:07:18 -0700 Rick Duvall
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have about 200 gigs of data to back up every night on multiple machines
on the network. All are either FreeBSD or Linux based. My backup
machine is FreeBSD. I have about 30 gigs of dump drive space, and a 20
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To: "Rick Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: Amanda or Bacula
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> > Is this a choice of personal preference, or does one actually work
> > better than the other in my scenario?
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> I replied earli
