Backing up over network

James Marcinek jmarc1 at jemconsult.biz
Tue Mar 2 13:22:02 UTC 2004


You might want to try Mondo archive:

http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/

There was an article in the Linux Journal about this:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5449

It was easy to install and you can do NFS backups too!

Later,

James

> 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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