on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:24:47AM -0500, Brad Cramer (callahan.funeral@gte.net) wrote:
> I have a small network at home (4 linux machine 2 win98 machines) and
> I would like to know what would be the best way to back these up to
> one server that has a scsi dat drive. I have tries afbackup but am
> having a heck of a time getting it configured. Is there a simpler way
> of doing this.
> I am mainly worried about the linux machine, not the win98 machines as
> they are my kids and the info on them isn't important.
> Is there a way I could use tar to do weekly full and daily incremental
> backups and copy these to an nfs mount on the server with the dat
> drive. I would like them to to be named hostname.date.full/incr.tar.gz
> so I can tell what goes where and I am not worried about backing up
> the stuff I can restore from a fresh install just the stuff I can't.
>
> any advice or pointers would be appreciated or if someone could
> simplify afbackup for me that would help. BTW 3 of the linux machines
> are running Debian one is running RedHat.
There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux system backups you may
find useful, at:
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html
I was flipping through Nemeth et al, +The UNIX Administrator's
Handbook_, new edition (grape, not red), which has a good section on
backups. It and several sources highly recommend Amanda, which I should
add to my FAQ above.
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