On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:27:52AM -0500, israel.garcia@cimex.com.cu enlightened us:
I've just installed a CentOS 4.0, postgress,iptables, ect.. on a P 4 Intel using sotf RAID 1 ...and everything is fine. I bought a HP DLT 40/80G tape device for being use as tape backup to my server. My questions are:
- What you recomended me to use as a soft backUP. (amanda,
dump/restore, TAR scipts, other)?
amanda is just a backup scheduler. It uses the native system tools to actually perform the backup, so it can use dump or tar, as well as using mt, dd, etc.
- How can I backUP my entire filesystem ..(I mean everything using one
the above software)?
amanda can schedule that for you.
- What software can I use to put this data into my tape device (HP DLT
40/80 G).?
tar or dump. If you just want full backups, and it will all fit on your tape, I'd probably just use one of those. If you need to use several tapes to backup your system, I'd probably use amanda and break it up into smaller chunks to spread out tape usage.
- Is there only one software which do everything I want?
That goes against the Unix philosophy of do one thing and do it well. You'll have to become familiar with several tools to use a tape drive. mt and tar/dump being the primary ones.
NOTE: I am looking for some software which makes me a quick/easy backUP and quick/easy restore...
amanda will schedule backups, and provides the amrecover command which gives you an ftp-like interface to your archived files.
Matt