Re: kbackup
Thanks to all who responded to my message "backup using hard disk - any
ideas". I downloaded kbackup and I intend to start with that as soon as I
get my replacement drive. Thanks too to Ralph Winslow for the Perl script.
That is my current emergency backup till I get the drive back. Another
alternative I considered was RAID, which is supposed to be built into the
kernel. kbackup seems to be simpler so I'll start with that.
later
jmb
>Hi,
>
> I have long been meaning to investigate kbackup, but it kept
> loosing to procrastination.I am used to restore/dump and different
> levels of dump; I do not see any level 2 or higher facilities in the
> documentation (incremental dumps are, well, tedious when restoring).
>
> I have now started to set kbackup up, and there were a few
> false starts (like, do not turn on the verify after backup for a
> tape, the option always shows the first archive on the medium, and do
> not automatically rewind after every operation).
>
> I still have questions (the documentation is, charitably,
> sparse). And I think I have a bug -- when backing up my home dir, I
> do not want to backup the netscape cache> So, I included the line
>.netscape/cache
> in Exclude_Files-- but the cache files still ended up on the tape ;-(
>
> Also, how do people handle multiple backups? I have a dozen
> different configs defined so far, and there are more to come
> (/var/lib/dpkg and /var/named come to mind). How do you set up an
> automated backup schedule? How can one script things such that one
> does not have to manually toggle the incremental flag?
>
> manoj
> beginning to think about amanda
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