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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!feenix.metronet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!newsflash.concordia.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!top.MTS.Net!worldlinx.com!news.hcl.com!news.hcl.com!not-for-mail From: rudy@hcl.com (Rudy Amid) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Backups - which method do you prefer? Date: 16 Jul 1995 14:12:24 -0400 Organization: Hummingbird Communications Ltd. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3ubkq8$9i3@mailhub.hcl.com> References: <3tr2te$de0_002@ventura.rain.org> <1995Jul14.205553.17021@news.snu.ac.kr> NNTP-Posting-Host: mhoutside.hcl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Brian Uytiepo (uytbrian@mail.stardate.com) wrote: : Use tar and cron to do incremental and master backups in the background, : usually during slow or non-peak usage hours. This should give you : maximum portability in case you have to restore to any other flavor of : unix, plus IMHO, you can find the most plentiful and reliable numbers of : file converters and readers for other OS's for the tar format, in case : you have to restore to a LAN/OS or NT or VAX format, not to mention DOS : or EBCDIC(yuk!). There are also a number of compressed and completely : automated background or foreground utility programs like C/tar, : Lone-tar, Btar, etc... which can restore your system from scratch in 15 : minutes to a reformatted HD or cluster or even a new platform. The : 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? -- 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 */