Hi!
Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> >How easy are these other backup systems to implement? Are any of them Open
> >Source like tar? The advantage of tarballs is that any linux box can read
> >them.
> Taper is nice because it provides a DOS-like interface through the ncurses
> library, although you can also setup taper for unattended backups.
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I have also heard of people being disappointed with taper
being too unstable for them and things changing from version
to version, but I have not used taper, so do use that with a
big grain of salt!
> The big advantage taper has over tar is that it saves a
> local copy of the archive file list on the hard drive, which can save a
> tremendous amount of time if you wish to recover a single file.
Afio can do that to, if you want.
-B If the -v option is used, prints the byte offset of
the start of each file in the archive. If your
tape drive can start reading at any position in an
archive, the output of -B can be useful for doing
quick selective restores.
But you'll have to write a wrapper around it, of course. :-)
dump/restore is also very nice, as it stores the directory
at the begin of the backup and gives you an interactive
(shell-like) interface so you can select and deselect
directories (with and without the files/directories in them)
and files as you want and then tell it to go on and restore.
However, it does not implement a compression scheme (many
DAT drives do that, however) and last I looked it did *not*
like splittiing archives over multible media in Linux (broke
the file that was splitted). But then that's probably changed
by now, it's been some time.
> Real life example: When updating the samba RPM, my samba.conf file was
> replaced with a default config file.
OT, but:
It should have saved your samba.conf in samba.conf.rpmsave
or samba.conf.rpmorig and given you a warning that it did
that, unless you did not change the samba.conf at all.
Newer RPMs (v 3.xx) can also save the new config file
under another name and leave yours in place.
In that case restore might have been even faster :-)
-Wolfgang
