Backing up over network

Michael Hamam mh58 at aub.edu.lb
Wed Mar 3 01:56:01 UTC 2004


The easiest way to do remote backup as follows;

        1-export the filesystem on pike to bearclaw
        2-mount the exported filesystem on bearclaw
        3-use tar dump ...ETC to backup the exported filesystem.

Best Regards
MH
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerry Doris" <gdoris at rogers.com>
To: <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: Backing up over network


> > Greetings!
> >
> > I have 2 RedHat boxen, One is RH 9.0 with SCSI DDS3 tape drive
(we'll name
> > it bearclaw).  The other is RH 8.0, with 100 GB IDE drive(named
pike).
> >
> > Pike has ~41 gig of MP3's on his drive.  I want to back them up to
> > Bearclaw's DDS3 drive.
> >
> > What is the easiest way to do this?  Will dd work?  It's my
understanding
> > that dd does not support tape spanning.  I have 12gig (native)
tapes, so
> > I'll need to span accross about 4 tapes, to get it all.
> >
> > Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Brian
>
> If you want to do to tape then I suggest either Amanda or Arkeia.
> Although Arkeia is a commercial product they do provide a "Light"
version
> that is limited to a server plus two clients.  I've used it and it
works
> well.
>
>
> Gerry
>
>
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