Backing up over network

Patrick May patrick at pmmay.sytes.net
Tue Mar 2 12:52:09 UTC 2004


On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:42:16AM -0600, Brian wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I have 2 RedHat boxen, One is RH 9.0 with SCSI DDS3 tape drive (we'll name
> it bearclaw).  The other is RH 8.0, with 100 GB IDE drive(named pike).
> 
> Pike has ~41 gig of MP3's on his drive.  I want to back them up to
> Bearclaw's DDS3 drive.
> 
> What is the easiest way to do this?  Will dd work?  It's my understanding
> that dd does not support tape spanning.  I have 12gig (native) tapes, so
> I'll need to span accross about 4 tapes, to get it all.
> 
> Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> Brian

Take a look at AMANDA (http://www.amanda.org) for network backups.

You might have to play with the config as it will not span a filesystem across tapes. There is a really good list that you can join and they can give you ideas of what to do.

Patrick

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