Re: free backup tailored for removable disks
> Someone will say "use tar" or "use afio" or "use dump". I might, but
> as far as I can tell none of those except tar inherently support
> removable disks (multiple volumes). Tar can do multivolume backups,
> but from what I've read if one sector on the disk is corrupted, you
> lose the whole backup.
Yep, use tar :) We do all of our tape backups with tar and it works
great. We've never had a problem with restoring. I believe the really
finicky one is dump not tar, although dump does have some really nice
features for doing incremental backups. My main gripe with dump/restore
is that last I checked it wouldn't backup a live filesystem... so you had
to drop to single user mode or risk corrupted backups... which ain't so
hot for a 24x7 network.
Adam.
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