Use tar to append?
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Fri Mar 9 16:20:37 UTC 2007
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
> 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
> 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.
Sounds like a good thing to try.....
There is nothing like trying things and determining what works best for "you".
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