[NTLUG:Discuss] recommendations for tape drive

[Greg Edwards]

kbrannen at gte.net wrote:

> 
> All very easy if you know shell scripting, though it could be done in 
> Perl or even C (if you had to).  If I had to do it again today, about 
> the only thing I might change would be to use scp instead of curl.  
> Though curl is still a very useful utility in its own right, scp is a 
> bit easier to use.
> 
> HTH,
> Kevin
> 

I guess I'm really lazy ;)

I use find and a pipe through cpio -pdvm to an automounted (amd) nfs 
drive.  Only copies modified and new files.  When I want a fresh image I 
delete the tree on the backup server.  My backup server currently has a 
36G SCSI drive devoted to backups and doubles as my development box from 
an IDE drive.  When the time comes I'll add SCSI drives to extend my 
capacity.

I do cheat a little since every system has a server partition dedicated 
to the job(s) the system is intended for.  i.e. /server/db for database 
server or /server/www for web server.  Each system gets /etc and /server 
sent to it's specific machine named dir on the /server partition of the 
backup server.

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