[CentOS] Simple backup program
William L. Maltby
BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com
Wed Jun 7 19:19:57 UTC 2006
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.
> <snip>
> 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
--
Bill
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