Appreciate all the info on the backups guys

[arctic 91]

Many Thanks!




---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Justin Bennett <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com>
Reply-To: nflug at nflug.org
Date: 21 Jun 2002 09:34:56 -0400

>I use tar for our file server (samba). Dump gives you more flexability
>with incremental backups. Where tar is just a full. I just do it all
>every night with tar. I have several diffrent drives with diffrent mount
>points you can back them all up with a single command line:
>
>Example:
>
>tar -cf - /export/proj /export/mishome | dd of=/dev/st1 obs=64
>
>(the dd is just to get the correct block size to get max throughput on
>our DLT80s. It's not needed, but significantly reduces backup time)
>
>
>On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 09:20, arctic 91 wrote:
>> Hello,
>>    Well since most of my testing is down for the migration to Samba off of Novell, one big question I have is for backups. We always use Tar on our unix web server. Is this going to server us well for a File server? I know through webmin it has a file system backup with dump, has anyone used that at all? The drives will have multiple mounts for the system, isn't it true with tar you need a seperate tape per mount? Any information would be greatly appreciated. 
>> 
>>    Carl
>> 
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>Justin Bennett
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>Network Administrator
>Dynabrade Inc.
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