Backup question for RedHat Samba Server

Justin Bennett justin.bennett at dynabrade.com
Fri Jun 21 10:48:58 EDT 2002


Haven't tried it, When I got the drives this what the FAQs used to speed
the backup up. I may give it a shot. It would make the restore easier
don't have to pipe dd into tar.

 
Thanks.

Justin 
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 10:36, Robert Meyer wrote:
> Why not just use the blocking arguments to tar to further
> improve the process.  You can eliminate a pipe and a 'dd' process.
> 
> e.g. tar cvfB /dev/st1 64 /export/proj /export/mishome
> 
> Just a thought...
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Bob
> --- Justin Bennett <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com> wrote:
> > 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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