On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 15:10 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:
I am looking for a simple backup program that I can use to backup a CentOS box to a local tape drive. Hopefully someone here can give me a recommendation.
This is what I need: - Simple launching of manual backups (preferably from the command line) - Ability to span tapes for a large backup - Proper treatment of hardlinked files - Notification via email or similar when it is ready for the next tape.
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Anyone have any suggestions? I would think that there would be a simple program out there to backup and restore from tape without all of the extra scheduling and indexing features.
It's been a long time since I looked at them but both tar (short for tape archive) and cpio have the features you want, IIRC. Cpio is fed by "find" usually so you can do things like -depth to affect order. I know cpio has ability for media change prompt at the invoking terminal, I don't recall if tar does or not.
You'll have to read up on tar to see how it does hard links (I can't remember) but cpio can do them right.
Caveat: it's been a long time since I used these for what you are looking at. Investigate thoroughly.
-- Bowie <snippity, snippity siggity,siggity>
HTH