Use tar to append?

[Mike McCarty]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
> 
>>
>> Because use of amanda makes a nice way to do backups and takes care of 
>> all problems one may encounter trying to maintain their own set of 
>> tools/scripts.  Thought you may want to give it a try.  You don't have 
>> to. Just a suggestion.  Have fun hacking at tar and gzip.
> 
> 
> I'd recommend backuppc as perhaps an even more painless approach.  I 
> think there is an RPM available now although I haven't used it.  Both 
> amanda and backuppc will run basically unattended forever once you set 
> them up.  Backuppc needs some disk space on some computer on the network 

I have two (2) two computers on my "network". One runs MSDOS and has
6 MB of free disc.

> but uses compression and duplicate linking to keep a much longer 
> history on line than you'd expect.  It has a web interface to browse the 

Blech. More GUI.

> backups and restore with options to download directly through the 
> browser or restore back to the original location, and an option to 
> create a tar file from a backup, optionally compressed and split to 
> chunks of a specified size.  You can let it do the online runs nightly, 
> then archive to cd/dvd manually at whatever interval you want.

AND yet more software to learn how to use. No extra charge.

Mike
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