Backups

[John Nichel]

Christopher Crowell wrote:
> I would look at either Tapeware, Computer Associates, or Legato. They all
> sell backup solutions for Linux.

Or if you're only backing up selected portions of your system, you could 
just write a quick and dirty shell script, and set it on a cron...

#!/bin/sh

tar -cf <unique_filename>.tar <directories_files_to_archive>
bzip2 <unique_filename>.tar
etc....

Of course, you could add more to that, like checking to see if the 
files/directories exist, output filename exists, etc.  Once the archive 
is done, you could have the script do what you want with it...move it 
somewhere, dump it onto a CD-R, etc.

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John C. Nichel
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