[SLE] Backups

From: Greg Wallace (jgregw_at_acsalaska.net)
Date: 07/17/04

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 19:40:20 -0800

    Here is the weekly update of the backup list.
    Acronis TrueImage
      Jerome R Westrick -- Can back up to Disk,CD's, DVD's, Network, but also to
    Firewire/USB.
      Jerome R Westrick -- Costs $50

    afio
      Simon Oliver -- (According to Linux documentation, it creates a compressed
    archive that is "much
                       safer than compressed tar or cpio archives" -- Greg W)

    bacula

    CPIO
      Simon Oliver -- You say "find /usr -mount -print | cpio -o -v -H crc >
    file_or_device". If you
                      want data from other mounted file systems, say /usr/local,
    leave off the -mount
                      option.
                      (Say you did this and shipped the output to another
    storage device. Then you
                       lost your entire Linux system. Could you re-install SuSE
    from the
                       installation CD and, from within that running system, run
    the CPIO recovery?
                       -- Greg W)
    DAR
      Michael Cooke (one of the authors of the software) -- Can be found at
    dar.linux.free.fr/

    DD
      Simon Oliver -- Doesn't allow you to restore selected paths

    Mondo Rescue
      C Hamel -- Had problems with it under SuSE 8.2
      Donn Washburn -- You can get Mondo at www.microwerks.net/~hugo/
      Blue Moose IT Support -- If you have SuSE 9.1, you may want to go to
    www.mikenjane.net/~mike/.
                               The rpm from Mondo's site caused seg fault
    errors. The Mondo
                               available from mikenjane works with the 2.6
    kernel.
      Leendert Meyer -- Pointer at sourceforge.net/projects/mondo/
      Mike -- May not work on current SuSE versions. Last generic release was
    2002.
      Michael W Cocke -- Mondo has a maximum of 50 media unless you build it
    with some optional
                         switches

    Partimage
      Fleet Senseman -- Lets you recover to exactly what you had on your drive
    before you stared. It
                        can be found at www.partimage.org. The recovery cd
    program is systemrescuecd.

    Portlock Storage Manager
      Travis Barlow -- It's still in Beta. Can Backup to FTP/DVD/CD/etc... Go
    to
                       www.portlock.com/linux/

    RDIFF Backup
      Pinto -- Most thorough program.

    RIP
      C Hamel -- Available at
    sunsite.rediris.es/sites2/ibiblio.org/linux/system/recovery
                 (I went to this site and took a look. Apparently, you download
    RIP-10.0.iso.bin and
                  burn it to a CD. You then boot your machine from this CD. At
    that point, you have
                  several programs available, one of which, "partimage", will
    copy your entire linux
                  partition. Not sure where it copies it to. Maybe to a usb
    backup device? Sound
                  like the type of tool I am looking for in that it makes a
    complete image copy of
                  your partition -- Greg W)

    SuSE Linux sub-partitioning
      Bruce Marshall -- (This is more a precautionary measure to protect your
    data during installation
                        as opposed to a backup measure).
                             First I assume you dont want to spend all day
                        installing. Clean install is then the only way to go.
    Only 90 minutes on a PII
                        350 with 256mb memory.
                             You reject the recommended and goto expert
    partitioning. make /boot / swap and
                        /home separate partitions. I was told Oracle is hugh so
    IMHO it would be smart to
                        have a fifth partition just for it.
     

    tar
      Simon Oliver

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