At one site I manage I rsync the various disks across the LAN to a
/mnt/backup partition on the machine with the tape drive, which is a very
quick process, then I tape from that /mnt/backup partition at my leisure.
Howard.
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On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Afternoon,
>
> Just a quick question, I want to know the best method to backup say 2 key linux
> servers I have running. These both machines run Debian 2.1, and are connected
> to the same physical lan.
>
> One machine has a SCSI tape unit (being DDS2 I think), and I am wondering how
> someone would recommend doing the backup of both machines onto this one tape
> unit. I currently use dump grep it out to a bzip2 compression, and then dump
> the file to the filesystem, as I am yet to get the tape all configured and
> going. But before I do I want some ideas.
>
> Mainly curious about how the other machine without the tape unit, would backup
> up to the device on the other machine. Would this be shared out via NFS?
>
> Anyone feel free to comment, even if you think you might not know much, I am
> happy to listen to any body who has ideas.
>
> Thanks
> Michael
>
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