[techtalk] Backup strategy

[jennyw]

RE: [techtalk] Backup strategyThanks!  It occurs to me that one of my problems may be that device is just not installed properly. Is there some place I can go to find out more about installing SCSI tape devices?

It just seems strange that tar works a little bit and then dies.  I mean, if it didn't work at all then I'd assume I need to reconfigure (or there's a hardware problem).  But it starts working then stops.  This could still be a configuration or hardware problem, but maybe not so easy ...

One thing that would be great is some sort of SCSI diagnostic tool.

Thanks!

Jen
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Davida Schiff 
  To: techtalk at linuxchix.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 4:46 PM
  Subject: RE: [techtalk] Backup strategy


  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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