[techtalk] dump and restore?

[Olivier Tharan]

Le 07 septembre 2000 a 13:59, Brian Sweeney a écrit :
> I'd like to be able to backup everything on a number of different linux
> boxes (everything including OS, data, etc so that if necessary I can do a
> "bare metal" recovery).  I'd like to use dump b/c I've been told tar messes

Try amanda (http://www.amanda.org/); it is able to backup and restore
over a network, talks to many different brands of tape devices and uses
dump and restore to do the job.

It is worth a try, I remember setting up such a solution 2 years ago.

olive
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