[Suns-at-Home] Backup

[Rachel Polanskis]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Fam. Svantesson wrote:

> I have access to a external 2 Gb DAT-player, and I now need a backup script.
> The computer I have is a Sparc 20, 2 internal harddisks. a 4 Gb one, which
> holds the main operating systems (4 partitions) and a 1Gb-disk for my
> home-directory.
> 
> While I have a simple & rough script which may work, I really would like to
> have a script which compares the available size on the DAT-tape to the
> amount of backup needed. And which copies "full" partitions on the one tape,
> avoiding the: half-partition-on-that-tape, half-partition-on-the-other
> syndrome.

Take a look at "amanda" 

http://www.amanda.org/ 

It will do networked backups as well. 


rachel

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