[techtalk] Backup strategy

[Melissa Plunkett]

You might also want to check out bru
(http://www.estinc.com/products.php),
I think the personal edition is still free.  Also you might want to read
the GNU tar manual at http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar/ which has more info
than the man page.  Also are you getting an error message when tar
chokes
or does it just stop?

-Melissa

jennyw wrote:
> 
> 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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