Re: [LUG] Backup Routines

[Robin Cornelius <robin.cornelius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin Tunison wrote:
> Hello All,
>   
Hi Kevin
> At the moment I am backing up a linux box (Mandriva 2006) with norton ghost
> 2002 to several cds.  This works OK, but I have to reboot, and the backup
> strategy is manual.  
One possible (still manual) solution is to use dar its a bit like tar 
but designed to split up the resultant darballs ? into slices that will 
fit on to your medium. I split my data into 1.5G darballs that i then 
burn to DVD(s) (3 darballs per DVD 5), using a script that automates as 
much as possible. I chose 1.5G as the mkisofs in sarge won't do 
individual files over 2G.

Dar also has some other backup options such as the possibility for 
incremental etc. have a peek at it.


Robin


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