Re: [newbie] backup system
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:31:24 + robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. And, in 9.0, there's drakbackup, which is very comprehensive - backing up appropriate system files and directories plus those of no, any, or all users to CD, tape, network or HD. (It even incorporates tricks such as not backing up browser caches ...). Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] backup system
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:31:14 -0700 Schwenk, Jeanie [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. The usual Free Software suspect is amanda: http://www.amanda.org/ There are Mandrake packages in contribs, for example: ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake-devel/contrib/RPMS/ (amanda-client ... and amanda-server ...). If you want something commercial bru (which I used 12 years ago on SunOS!) is the way to go: http://www.tolisgroup.com/ Alastair Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] backup system
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] backup system
Might I suggest you take a look at Mondoarchive? Check out the website at http://www.mondorescue.com. With it, you can run differential backups as well as incremental. Rick On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 17:45, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
