Thanks for the suggestions and help, I'm further along, but here's were
I'm stuck.
If I invoke pptp and connect to it from a windows machine, it makes
a connection and then passes control to pppd. On a regular system
pppd passes back a data stream that windows recongnizes as coming
from pppd
"chicken and egg (now: backuping DBMSs)".
As you could learn from the thread, it is not the case of black and
white. Most (or all) backup packages don't support DBMSs directly,
and you must stop/lock the database temporarily before starting the
backup. Not to mention incremental ba
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. try using dump instead of tar, this is really ment for backup
Speaking about backuping, and also about databases like MySQL (in
another linux-il thread), let me ask you (you=linux-il subscribers)
to share your experience with backuping file-systems which include
Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Speaking about backuping, and also about databases like MySQL (in
another linux-il thread), let me ask you (you=linux-il subscribers)
to share your experience with backuping file-systems which include
running databases. I know that there are special
Short exmp
make directory backup
under it put a file exclude.txt which will include all the directory to
exclude
(example next line)
dev
mnt
backup
proc
and then use the -X to use the exclude.txt file
tar cvz -X /backup/exclude.txt -f /backup/xxx.tar.gz" /
Aviram Jenik wrote:
Hi.
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 06:09:01PM +0200, Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
Short exmp
make directory backup
under it put a file exclude.txt which will include all the directory to
exclude
(example next line)
dev
mnt
backup
proc
and then use the -X to use the exclude.txt file
tar cvz
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 08:24:50AM +0200, Mike ALmogy wrote:
if you want to do a backup of your entire HD why not using the MSDOS
program GHOST ?
I think Ghost is the paradigm of superfluous applications. Boot
from any decent single-floppy system and
dd if=/where/ever of=/hmm
I
Hi.
Stupid check-and-the-egg question.
I want to back up my entire hard-drive to a tgz file using tar. How can I do
this, without adding the tar to the tar?!
Thanks.
-
Aviram Jenik
"Addicted to Chaos"
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Today's quote:
- Real programmers think
if you want to do a backup of your entire HD why not using the MSDOS
program GHOST ?
I think that it supports linux File Systems. and since it copy every bit on
your HD then it will not be a problem to recover the info.
I recently installed a new card called Magic Card that supports linux quit
