Re: Linux Backup Administration

From: James Marcinek (jmarc1_at_jemconsult.biz)
Date: 07/01/05

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    date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:58:46 -0000
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    For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com> wrote:
    > I realize that this is off-topic. Hopefully you will forgive
    > me for imposing on you like this.
    >
    > I'm new to *nix administration. I've used *nix installations
    > for years in various incarnations (Xenix, Solaris, HPUX et al.)
    > but not on the admin side. Backup is still something of a
    > mystery to me. It seems that there are two schools of thought
    >
    > cpio
    > tar

    There are other open source solutions which can be used:

    AMANDA (www.amanda.org)
    Mondo (http://www.mondorescue.org/)

    >
    > It also seems that each side thinks the other side is nuts.
    > It also seems that using links (soft or otherwise) is not
    > well handled by either technique.
    > It also seems that everyone agrees that using tape is the
    > Way To Go(tm).
    >
    > Can anyone tell me whether my impressions on this matter
    > be correct? Is there a good tutorial which can give me
    > relative pros and cons of cpio style vs. tar style backup?
    > How about which directories actually need backing up?
    > How about how does one actually recover when the worst
    > happens?
    > How about disc upgrades? I suppose that /etc/fstab needs to be
    > new, but /etc/hosts needs to be restored. How does one go
    > about doing these "partial" restores to get the machine
    > back running again?
    >
    > I also don't want to use a tape drive, being (as some are)
    > on a restricted budget, both for time to learn new stuff
    > and monetarily, being among the Great Telecom Layoff. There
    > are very nice Windows programs which create initial/disaster
    > recovery CDs which can completely rebuild a system to the way
    > it was when initially created, and then do backups to CD after
    > that. *nix seems not to have any such concept.

    If you just want to make ISO's I would recommend using Mondo. You can make an
    image and restore to CD's and there's also a rescue disk for restoring, etc

    >
    > Anyway, thanks for you time.
    >
    > Mike 

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