Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>
> I tried tar, but it complained about some things, so I'm now looking at
> rsync.
Tar is probably right to complain about some things. Try to understand
them - they may or may not be important. Rsync is meant to copy
disk-disk, perhaps over a network, but it isn't going to work with tape.
> I want to back up to our Overland LTO3 tape library connected
> to the server via a SCSI card. One filesystem is /home, and the other
> is /var.
>
> I'd want to create a full backup, with verbose output, and weekly
> incrementals.
Tar should work fine for this. You could automate with amanda or
bacula, but for a single host it is probably easier to just schedule the
tar commands.
> Again, files may be in-use during backups - no databases in use at this
> time. I just have to live with the in-use files situation.
That's normally not a problem other than getting whatever state you
happen to catch in an active file.
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Les Mikesell
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