Backup question for RedHat Samba Server

[Bradley J. Bartram]

One piece of software that I;ve used on ocassion and had pretty good luck with 
is taper.  It has a command line interface which makes it very easy to 
administer the tapes as well as backup sets and restore functions.  It can 
also be called completely from the command line for unattended backups, like 
from crond.

brad

On Friday 21 June 2002 10:32 am, Robert Meyer wrote:
> I have never been a fan of using tar for backups.  Older versions didn't
> preserve
> special files, etc. so it was difficult to get a system back together. 
> I've used
> dump/restore for a long time and it has never failed me.  Note that this is
> for disaster recovery, not archival storage.  Picking individual files out
> of a dump set is somewhat more difficult than tar.  Newer versions of
> gnu tar are much better at preserving devices, fifos, etc. so it might be
> easier.  How much storage are we talking about backing up, here?
>
> I know that all versions of 'tar' have allowed for multiple tapes by
> allowing the ability to specify things like the tape densities, lenghts,
> etc. Newer versions actually detect the end of media and prompt for media
> changes.
>
> If you're working in an enterprise environment, I'd recommend one of the
> big backup systems like Legato Networker or Veritas.  For small
> environments, it's generally better to homebrew something that fits the
> environment.  If the requirement is to be able to simply restore a file
> that a user has whacked, then
> 'tar' is probably the right choice.  If you're looking to be able to
> recover a system that has crashed it's drives, then dump/restore is
> probably a better option.
>
> Hope that's sufficiently informative to completely muddy the decision
> making process :-)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Bob
>
> --- arctic 91 <arctic91 at Buffalo.com> 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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