Re: backup suggestions

by John Erjavec V <jev(at)pconline.com>

Date:	Tue, 01 Aug 2000 21:34:35 -0500
To:	Rich Bowen <rbowen(at)rcbowen.com>, hwg-servers(at)hwg.org
In-Reply-To:	rcbowen
	todo: View Thread, Original

At 09:33 PM 8/1/00 -0400, Rich Bowen wrote:
>Just wondering what people are using for backup on Linux. I've been
>using rhbackup for some time now, but am now running off the end of my
>tapes. rhbackup does not do any compression - it's basically just a
>wrapper on top of tar. Something with compression would be nice. BRU was
>a pain to set up. Amanda is not very well documented. I'm not sure what
>else to try.

Well, I use 'dump', but I don't think that does compression by default.  (I 
dump to disk, and then compress manually, keeping all my dumps on disk or 
CD.  I've not had good luck with tape.)  Looking at the man pages for dump, 
it looks like you can dump to STDOUT, in which case, I think you should be 
able to compress the output stream before it hits disk.  Otherwise, you 
could dump to disk, compress the dumps, and then move that to tape.  Not 
really simple, but it could all be automated.

-JEV
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