[SunHELP] Backupss, how to organize?

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 Hi Maarten, 
             Actually, I have handled a 12 more file
 systems with 4GB in Each, i'm taking these by Ufsdump
 with incremental type.

             This is better way to take backup for 
larger file systems.

-Amanullah.k  ( System Support , aman01 at hotmail.com)

On Thu, 12 April 2001, Maarten Deen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> now that I seem to get more and more data, I'm looking to use some kind 
> of backup strategy on my suns.
> Two questions are really bugging me:
> - how to do an incremental backup? In MS-DOS I'm used to reset the archive
>   bit so I can see what I need to backup for the next incremental. How do
>   you handle this in SunOS/Solaris?
> - how do you backup filesystems that are larger that the tapesize? If you
>   tar,  does it prompt for a second tape?
> Or should I use cpio or something else for backups?
> 
> Any good pointers?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Maarten
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