On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 17:46, Chad Skinner wrote: > Can someone list a few of the tools I need to learn to do tape backups? I > don't know where to start ... what are the best docs to read. > > Chad >
some tools that are used are tar archiving software cpio archiving software dump archiving software mt tape control program at least a cursory understanding of these will help try info "command" or man "command" replacing "command" with the above tool names will give you lots of info tar, IMHO is especally one that you will fnd usful in you linux life as it is used a lot to group files together into "tarballs" either with compression or without depending on the flags used to tar it up. If money is not an issue O'Reilly has a book dedicated to backups that has gotten good reviews. googleing on these with howto linux might turn up some interesting stuff too. We use amanda as our backup software to back up a bunch of machines nightly over the LAN. the rpms are included in recent RedHats. An awful lot depends on what you need to backup and how important it is as well as the actual tape sytsem used dat dlt etc. Hope this is what you are looking for. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
