On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:01:01AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote: > Hello there! I have a 2 gb dat drive and I would like to backup my server > periodicaly. It works, it's /dev/st0... I know I can use mt to do stuff > with the drive and tar to backup stuff... But is there a better way???
There are two common tools: dump/restore (apt-get install dump) or AMANDA (apt-get install amanda). Amanda is probably more than you need; it is most useful when you have a lot of machines that you need to back up over the network. It will certainly work on a single host, but dump and restore will probably be easier to manage. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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