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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newshost.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!noc1!alan From: alan@mid.net (Alan Hannan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Backups - which method do you prefer? Date: 17 Jul 1995 04:22:14 GMT Organization: MIDnet, the Midwest's Gateway to the Global Internet. Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3ucohm$om1@westie.mid.net> References: <3tr2te$de0_002@ventura.rain.org> <1995Jul14.205553.17021@news.snu.ac.kr> <3ubkq8$9i3@mailhub.hcl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: noc1.mid.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Rudy Amid (rudy@hcl.com) wrote: : Brian Uytiepo (uytbrian@mail.stardate.com) wrote: : : question is, are the man-hours(perhaps man-years of time) you've put : : into setting up your system worth a couple hundred bucks? You decide. : We have an Exabyte 8500 and 9 different unix hosts. You think tar will : do the trick for incremental backups? How is it done? Man tar. There are options in there for setting the level of the backup, where 0 means do it/everything no matter, what, and then 1 is everything that's changed since the last 0, and 2 everything that's changed since both 0 and 1, etc... all the way up to 9. Put these in a cron and every night you can backup everything that's changed since the night before. Once a week, you can back up everything that's changed since the week before, etc... This will alow you to customize your backup regimin to fit with your policy and resources. : -- : Rudy Amid (rudy@hcl.com) SysAdmin: Hummingbird Comms., Ltd. Toronto, Canada : ramid@nyx.cs.du.edu (Public Access Unix System) NT/Win95/Unix : Internet Relay Chat: Radix // #include <std.disclaimer> : URL: http://nyx10.cs.du.edu:8001/~ramid \X/ /* My Own Opinions, Only */ -- Alan Hannan Email: alan@mid.net Network Systems Administrator Voice: (402) 472-0239 MIDnet, Lincoln NOC Office Fax: (402) 472-0240 While most peoples' opinions change, the conviction of their correctness never does.