[techtalk] Backup strategy

[Davida Schiff]

In my last job I used the free Linux version of Arkeia
(http://www.arkeia.com/download.html)
It worked well. Also the documentation is well written.

HTH,

Davida

-----Original Message-----
From: jennyw [mailto:jennyw at dangerousideas.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 3:05 PM
To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: [techtalk] Backup strategy


Can anyone suggest where I can go to find out more about backup strategies?

I have Linux on two machines, and Windows NT on another.  I was thinking of
backing up the Windows machine using SMB mounted directories.  The hardware
I'm using is a Seagate 24 GB Scorpion DAT drive running off of an Adaptec
AHA-2940 controller (to which a CD-RW drive is also attached).  I'm running
on Progeny Debian 1.0 (which is based on Debian 2.2).  This is what I
eventually want to do ... at this point, though, I can't even get the tape
drive to do a simple backup.

I've tried using tar (e.g., "tar cvf /dev/st0 ." from my home directory),
taper, and a few other free software packages (ones that have .deb
packages), but nothing seems to be able to handle the drive correctly
(they'll back up a few files and then choke when they get to the first big
file, which is an ISO image -- ~500 MB).  I haven't tried to read anything
off of the tape yet.

At this point, I'm not sure where to go.  I probably need to learn more
about how to configure and test tape drives under Linux -- something I'm
pretty clueless about.

Unfortulatey, most of the info I've seen on the Web and in books so far
describes floppy tape drives or other lower capacity drives (e.g., taper's
Web site says it can only support up to 4 GB). I couldn't find a howto on
backups. Can anyone point to better references? Or suggest some backup
packages?

Thanks!

Jen


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