On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 02:02:25 -0700
Ian L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey Ian,
> well it seemed like a bad idea to commit ourselves to using a backup drive
> for which buying new tapes would probably not be possible, plus if the
> drive bit the dust, we wouldnt have access to any of our backups.
> Last backup system i tried to set up
> didnt work too well since the company who made the tape drive went out of
> business about 2 weeks after i bought it. Anyone want a brand new onstream
> drive? :)
Pity about that. I've been using an onstream drive for backups for about
3 years now without
> >tar -cvlO /disk /disk2 | split -b 50 - file.tar.
The downside to doing this is that recovery becomes difficult if any of the
split files is lost or becomes corrupted. If you want to stay below a
certain size you could (if possible) tar up individual subdirectories.
If you've got directo
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:05:31 -0700
Ian L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> much thanks ... especially since my idea wont work since there's a 2gb file
> size limit as ed pointed out. Oh well ... i'll have a backup system working
FWIW, The 2Gb limit has been removed in version 3 or better of NFS.
At 06:57 PM 9/16/2003, you wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:31:32 -0700
Ian L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> i made a stupid assumption ... tar would do something intelligently.
>
> I was running a back up such as: tar -cvlf file.tar -L 50 /disk /disk2
>
> What i thought this would do i
At 06:54 PM 9/16/2003, you wrote:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:31:32PM -0700, Ian L wrote:
> I was running a back up such as: tar -cvlf file.tar -L 50 /disk /disk2
>
> What i thought this would do is back up /disk and /disk2 in multiple tar
> files of 500megs each. Instead, it creates file.tar an
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:31:32 -0700
Ian L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> i made a stupid assumption ... tar would do something intelligently.
>
> I was running a back up such as: tar -cvlf file.tar -L 50 /disk /disk2
>
> What i thought this would do is back up /disk and /disk2 in
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:31:32PM -0700, Ian L wrote:
> I was running a back up such as: tar -cvlf file.tar -L 50 /disk /disk2
>
> What i thought this would do is back up /disk and /disk2 in multiple tar
> files of 500megs each. Instead, it creates file.tar and when it hits
> 500megs, waits
Hey all,
i made a stupid assumption ... tar would do something intelligently.
I was running a back up such as: tar -cvlf file.tar -L 50 /disk /disk2
What i thought this would do is back up /disk and /disk2 in multiple tar
files of 500megs each. Instead, it creates file.tar and when it hits
