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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060607/d837ed37/attachment-0005.sig>