hi y jams... tape backup sw... "find | gre | tar " works best for me... ( going to tape or disks )
- tons of free backup scripts and few more commercial apps which you use depends n your budget and amount of data and backup media you use and comfoprt level of find|tar and/or cpio, dump, etc - most of what needs to be done for backups can be done in 1 lines or so ( 3-4 crontab entries ... ) # daily incremental of last 8 days find /$DIRS -mtime -8 | tar cvf /dev/tape -T- # weekly incremental of last 32 days find /$DIRS -mtime -32 | tar cvf /dev/tape -T- # montly incremental of last 90 days.. find /$DIRS -mtime -90 | tar cvf /dev/tape -T- # do a full backup however often ya like.. tar cvf /dev/tape /$DIRS -- done -- - make n-copies of it if ya paranoid - - encrypt it if ya even mroe paranoid - - ... on and on .. c ya alvin On Tue, 21 May 2002, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On 21 May 2002 14:31:02 -0500 > "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think we're well past the point where we must agree to > > disagree about the best way to back up enterprise databases. > > Agreed. Now, would it be possible to get back to the original topic "tape > backup software". I (for one) am very interested to hear what about > people experiences, recommendations (or lack thereof) concerning tape > backup software. I don't care much for a philisophical debate over > whether to use tapes or hard drives. I've already made the decision to > use tapes and am relatively open to hear what works and what doesn't for > others out there. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]