[rescue] backups?

[Big Endian]

>On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Big Endian wrote:
>
>>  >Home LAN.  Linux, HP/UX 10.20, NetBSD, SCO OSRV, Solaris soon.
>>  >DDS2 tape drive hanging off a Sparcstation.
>>  >should I use cpio, dump, or tar?
>>
>>  dump.  then copy all of the dump files over nfs to the sparc box and
>>  tar those up onto the tape.  Thats how I do backups and it works
>>  great.
>>
>>  daniel
>>
>
>I just tried dump and I thought it worked pretty good and was easy to
>use.  One question for you though is why not use the dump directly to tape
>via:
>dump -o user at host:/dev/tape /
>type of thing?  Worked good here anyway?

I've had bad luck getting dump to archive multiple machines to the 
same tape.  so what I do is I get a massive staging disk and just 
copy it all there and use tar to append to the tape for each machine 
that I copy dump files to the staging disk.  of course my new 1.6/3.2 
tb tape library helps a lot with that in that I could theoretically 
run 4 tapes simultaneously.

daniel
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