Scott Ehrlich wrote: > I have an Overland Arcvault tape library, a CentOS 5 box, a Windows XP > system, and RAID box that supports NFS and CIFS. > > The RAID box is remotely located and acts as central file storage. > > I might normally use dump to perform backups, but as was learned here, > and on dump's man page, dump doesn't support remote file systems such as > NFS or CIFS. > > So, for now, I've connected the library to a Windows XP system, running > Service Pack 2. I have a shell script that tar gz's the directories of > choice to preserve, places them in /backup, and, via samba's config of > making /backup available, have it mounted as a drive letter on the XP > system. I'm then using XP's built-in backup/restore program to store > the contents of /backup to tape, and that is working fine for now. > > Is there a reliable Linux/CentOS-based way to do this, too? I know > people keep saying use Amanda and/or bacula and be done with it, but in > the event something goes wrong and the mysql, etc database gets corrupt, > and people want their data back, it would be much easier to use a > readily-available command, like cpio, tar, etc, to do the job. For mysql, I strongly using MySQL's mysqldump or a wrapper to backup the DB, then put it to tape.