Hello again! I think I have done this correctly, but I've never used the dump command
before, so there might be a better way. We have a 24G DDS3 tape drive, so I think I
don't have to tell the dump program the density, blocksize or length, please let me
know if I really should. Below is the relevent part of root's crontab. Does it look
ok?
Thanks so much,
Jennifer
p.s. thanks everyone on the Silicon Valley tips - I think I'm going to go for it.
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Backups
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Every thursday at around midnight 'till 1am do a full backup
# of the filesystems /home /usr and /holding -jen
0 0 * * 4 /sbin/dump 0urf /home /dev/nst0
20 0 * * 4 /sbin/dump 0urf /usr /dev/nst0
40 0 * * 4 /sbin/dump 0urf /holding /dev/nst0
# Do the incremental backups of these filesystems on the subsequent days.
# The incremental level is a tower of Hanoi so that Friday and Monday night
# backups both contain changes since thursday and tuesday and wednesday both
# contain changes since Monday. Each is appended to the end of
# the non rewind tape. Also done between midnight and 1am.
0 0 * * 5 /sbin/dump 3urf /home /dev/nst0
20 0 * * 5 /sbin/dump 3urf /usr /dev/nst0
40 0 * * 5 /sbin/dump 3urf /holding /dev/nst0
0 0 * * 1 /sbin/dump 2urf /home /dev/nst0
20 0 * * 1 /sbin/dump 2urf /usr /dev/nst0
40 0 * * 1 /sbin/dump 2urf /holding /dev/nst0
0 0 * * 2 /sbin/dump 5urf /home /dev/nst0
20 0 * * 2 /sbin/dump 5urf /usr /dev/nst0
40 0 * * 2 /sbin/dump 5urf /holding /dev/nst0
0 0 * * 3 /sbin/dump 4urf /home /dev/nst0
20 0 * * 3 /sbin/dump 4urf /usr /dev/nst0
40 0 * * 3 /sbin/dump 4urf /holding /dev/nst0
# end backup cron jobs.
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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