Re: FW: [SLE] Backups
From: Carl William Spitzer IV (cwsiv_at_myrealbox.com)
Date: 07/10/04
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To: SuseLynuxEnglish <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:48:18 -0700
for those in the us there is ebay.com or pricegrabber.com which indexes
sales sites. Most of the guys in my local group sell off their old
stuff so thats how I got my little hub. Good Hunting.
CWSIV
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 00:45, Greg Wallace wrote:
> By the way, this device is somewhat pricey. I paid $403.95 for it in early
> '03. There may be cheaper networked devices around that have the same
> functionality.
>
> Greg
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Wallace [mailto:jgregw@acsalaska.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:33 PM
> To: 'Carlos E. R.'
> Cc: 'suse-linux-e@suse.com'
> Subject: RE: [SLE] Backups
>
> I have a Linksys EFG80, which is an Ethernet networked storage device. It
> is a Unix based operating system running Samba, which is designed to be used
> on a Windows network or workgroup set-up. If you install Samba on Linux,
> you can back-up directly to it. It comes with one 80G drive and a slot for
> a second drive up to 120G. I used to back up directly to it, but my backups
> got so big that CP would crap out about 2/3 of way through (maybe I was
> overflowing buffers on the Linksys). The device also has an FTP and Print
> server. I now log into it via FTP and do a "send". That way, it controls
> how fast it wants to move the data and I've never had any problems. I have
> both a Windows and a Linux machine on my network. My printer is hooked up
> to this device and I can print to it from either printer. It's a pretty
> handy device for a small home network. Just an FYI.
>
> Greg W
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlos E. R. [mailto:robin1.listas@tiscali.es]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 9:10 AM
> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
> Subject: RE: [SLE] Backups
>
>
> The Tuesday 2004-07-06 at 18:31 -0800, Greg Wallace wrote:
>
> > When I back up via YAST, I specify the following options --
> >
> > *) Search files that do not belong to any packages
> > *) Back up hard disk system areas
> >
> > I have done a complete recovery of some entire high-level directory that I
> > had originally created myself (for example, the Oracle database software
> > directory and the Oracle database data directory). I'm hoping I have
> > everything that way. I have deleted the Oracle software directory, done a
> > full recovery of that directory, and everything is there and works just
> like
> > before. I am hoping by doing a backup this way that I have everything
> that
> > has changed since my initial installation.
>
> Yes, you do get a backup of modified files. But those not modified, that
> came from an rpm on CD are no copied. It is a kind of incremental restore,
> such a one that a full restore can be a real pain. I know, it happened to
> me.
>
>
> > >All this I tell from memory; but I was caught by it before.
> >
> > >I prefer a really full backup to CD or DVD.
> >
> > No CD or DVD will hold all of my data. It's like 6 or 7 gigabytes. But I
> > have a networked storage device with an 80G capacity, so I save it over
> > there. One you "backup to CD", are you saying you point YAST to the CD,
> or
> > are you using some other software to do a byte by byte image copy?
>
> I do my backups manually. I use "mkzftree" to create a compressed tree of
> files and directories which are a copy of everything on the HDs I want to
> backup. Then I break them in chunks roughly 4.7 GB (using mc). Those
> compressed trees I convert to images using "mkisofs -z -R ...", which I
> finally burn to DVD using xcdroast.
>
> The result is two DVDs with a full compressed backup of my Linux
> filesystem, which can be mounted normally (mount...) and explored or
> restored using any standard Linux tool, like konkeror, midnight commander
> (mc), cp, whatever: zisofs compressed CDs/DVDs can be read transparently
> by the Linux kernel, they are decompressed on the fly.
>
> It is a complicated way of doing a backup, and needs about 160% of your fs
> as free space. But the end result is very usable.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Carlos Robinson
>
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