I second BackupPC. Very nice, despite what some may consider a
misleading name.
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After all the good suggestions by several people from
this list, I think we will go with dump and restore. I used to
use dump around ten years ago when our departmental Unix work
station was a Sun and I don't ever remember it letting us down,
even after something dreadful happened to the m
restore -i
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Jaime wrote:
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Wojciech Puchar
wrote:
dump is perfect. period.
Is it possible to pull out individual files? A fellow sysadmin asked
me that years ago and I didn't have an answer for him.
Thanks,
Jaime
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 05:11:22PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote:
> Most certainly. Use the restore function. Interactive mode is easiest
> for a small number of files.
Doug's correct. The interactive mode of restore, with its
shell-like interface, is probably easiest if you're just looking for
two
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:52:40PM -0500, Jaime wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Wojciech Puchar
> wrote:
> > dump is perfect. period.
>
> Is it possible to pull out individual files? A fellow sysadmin asked
> me that years ago and I didn't have an answer for him.
Very easily.Jus
On Jan 28, 2009, at 16:52, Jaime wrote:
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Wojciech Puchar
wrote:
dump is perfect. period.
Is it possible to pull out individual files? A fellow sysadmin asked
me that years ago and I didn't have an answer for him.
Most certainly. Use the restore function.
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Wojciech Puchar
wrote:
> dump is perfect. period.
Is it possible to pull out individual files? A fellow sysadmin asked
me that years ago and I didn't have an answer for him.
Thanks,
Jaime
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purpose. (tar is fine for archives of static hierarchies, but it is not
suitable for full-system backups.) Dump fully supports the concept of
full/partial backups in a robust manner. (It has other useful features
dump is perfect. period.
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:30:54PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> What we plan to do is backup a bunch of Unix systems to
> one FreeBSD box and then use a commercial package to back that
> box up to an enterprise-wide system we use. The archiver we need
> must be able to make 1 full backup
On Wed 28 Jan 2009 at 10:38:56 PST Wojciech Puchar wrote:
If you're looking for something "serious" (I mean with
incremental/differential/full backups, retension periods, pools, multi
platform, tape/file/dvd support, ...) I highly suggest Bacula
(http://www.bacula.org).
how you define "serious"
If you're looking for something "serious" (I mean with
incremental/differential/full backups, retension periods, pools, multi
platform, tape/file/dvd support, ...) I highly suggest Bacula
(http://www.bacula.org).
how you define "serious"?
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If you're looking for something "serious" (I mean with
incremental/differential/full backups, retension periods, pools, multi
platform, tape/file/dvd support, ...) I highly suggest Bacula
(http://www.bacula.org).
I use it successfully at work since two years (we used Amanda before) to
backup 10+ m
Mamlookie wrote, On 1/28/2009 1:29 AM:
I just stumbled upon BackupPC yesterday, so I amnot sure how good it can be
because I haven't had time to test, but nothing stops you from looking at
it, now that you are after a solution.
Please see http://backuppc.sourceforge.net
PS: If you do test it
Mamlookie wrote:
> I just stumbled upon BackupPC yesterday, so I amnot sure how good it can be
> because I haven't had time to test, but nothing stops you from looking at
> it, now that you are after a solution.
> Please see http://backuppc.sourceforge.net
>
> PS: If you do test it out, please co
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Martin McCormick wrote:
>Several months ago, I started using dar to backup a
> number of FreeBSD and Linux systems to one FreeBSD box. It
> worked fine once one got the syntax of the remote commands
> working, but then it all died when I moved it to a new
Martin McCormick wrote:
> Several months ago, I started using dar to backup a
> number of FreeBSD and Linux systems to one FreeBSD box. It
> worked fine once one got the syntax of the remote commands
> working, but then it all died when I moved it to a new
> FreeBSD6.3 system.
I feel for yo
Greg Larkin writes:
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> It doesn't use tar, but I've had great luck with rsnapshot
> (http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/rsnapshot/ -
> http://www.rsnapshot.org/) for backing up multiple RedHat Linux and
> FreeBSD servers to a central server over SSH.
Tha
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Martin McCormick wrote:
> Several months ago, I started using dar to backup a
> number of FreeBSD and Linux systems to one FreeBSD box. It
> worked fine once one got the syntax of the remote commands
> working, but then it all died when I moved i
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:30:54PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Several months ago, I started using dar to backup a
> number of FreeBSD and Linux systems to one FreeBSD box. It
> worked fine once one got the syntax of the remote commands
> working, but then it all died when I moved it to
Several months ago, I started using dar to backup a
number of FreeBSD and Linux systems to one FreeBSD box. It
worked fine once one got the syntax of the remote commands
working, but then it all died when I moved it to a new
FreeBSD6.3 system.
if you are backup up to disk on same/othe
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