There are literally hundreds of solutions out there ... a quick search at sourceforge is what prompted me to post in hopes of finding a backup utility quickly. Unfortunately many are alpha or beta releases. And it take quite a bit of time to wade through all the hits.
Currently we have only one linux machine (sad isn't it, but I am working on it). Today the sysadmin was supposed to install legato's backup system ... then he read the documentation and mandrake-linux is not supported. I've got a big fat tarball on a machine that is backed up so I have that at least. I was hoping to find a backup system that did incremental backup and is preferably client-server. A nice interface would be nice. It's pretty hard to convince windows junkies that a non-gui based piece of software is worth using. Still reading ... Jeanie -----Original Message----- From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] backup system Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: >Is there a recommended backup system for mandrake? We use legato on all our >other operating systems here but I was just informed by our sysadmin that >linux-mandrake is not supported. I need a backup system because my linux >machine is now utilized by everyone in our department and the database is >growing. Can't afford to lose this data. > >Jeanie > Depends on what your backup needs are. If they're extensive, run a search on any Linux software site for solutions; if they're simple, just write a little script to do the job using tar. The simplest would just be to tar and zip all home directories, then ftp to another computer or move to a backup device such as a zip drive. The following, for example, would back up all home directories to another machine (assuming you have ncftp installed, which I wholeheartedly recommend - it's far and away my favourite ftp client). tar zcf - /home | ncftpput -c -X /home/me/junk anotherbox.mycompany.com /home/me/backup.tar.gz In this case /home/me/junk is a file listing the types of file that you don't want included (you probably don't want to back up everybody's Netscape cache, for example). See man ncftpput for details. Sir Robin >__________________________________________________________________ >This is Linux country. On a quiet night, you can hear NT re-boot. > > LOL > > -- "Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It's lovely to be silly at the right moment" - Horace Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
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