Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Ken Irving wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:48:07PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
>   
> > Owen Townend wrote:
> >     
> > > On 2/29/08, *Kent West* <westk@acu.edu <mailto:westk@acu.edu>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     I have a small server on which I need to backup the /home partition.
> > >
> > >     
> > >       
> > This sounds very promising, but I can't seem to wrap my brain around the  
> > syntax required. I just tried this command:
> >
> > sudo tar -cvzf /TERASTATIONBACKUP/2008Feb29.tgz /home | split -b 2000m -  
> > 2008Feb29.tgz
> >     
>
> The -f option of tar identifies the output file, and its argument should
> be - (a single dash) to use standard output.  
>
>   
Okay; I've changed it to:


sudo tar -cvzf - /home | split -b 2000m - /TERASTATIONBACKUP/2008Feb29.tgz

which looks to be working. I'll know in just a bit.

Thanks very much. I'm hopeful this will be just the ticket.

(Now to wrap my brain around cron. Arg....)

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Kent