Re: Recommended Linux Backup
On 09-11-01 02:21:45, lrhorer wrote:
> > On Thursday October 29 2009 5:14:44 pm lrhorer wrote:
> >> 1. Back up to removable hard drives
> >> 2. Span multiple target volumes
> >> 3. Maintain a virtual fileysystem so all snapshots look like a
> >> single backup to the user.
> >> 4. Maintain an easily monitored index so the user can see which
> >> drive will be needed for a particular backup or restore operation.
> >> 5. Be able to easily rebuild the index and virtual file system
> >> from the backup drives (preferebly just one drive) if the database
> >> is lost on the source system.
> >
> > tar will do 1, 2, and 4. It might be able to do 5.
>
> Tar will *NOT* do 1 & 2. If tar reaches the nd of a tape
> volume, it prompts for another volume (it knows how to handle an
> EOT). When writing to a file, if the need of the volume is reached,
> tar aborts.
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Use the -L option to set the tape length in KiB, along with the -M
option to tell it to use multiple "tapes". See `info tar`. You should
probably not be writing to a filesystem, but rather directly to the
device file. I don't know if tar will handle that on its own or will
need the -L option.
tar won't be much use for restoring single files or directories,
though.
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