Hi, so here is the deal I am wanting to backup my two servers onto a single
tape backup. I have a Redhat/Samba server and a redhat/mail/dns/router
server.
What I am doing now is having the Redhat/mail/dns/router server nightly
smbtar all the shares on the Redhat/Samba server and then writing these
smbtar's (along with tars created of its own directories) to a 4 gig SCSI
tape.
Seems that I have a problem with over 2 gig, is this because of a file limit
with the smbtar? or just linux?
I want this backup to be automated. To be able to just replace tapes daily
and have crontabs ( as I do now) do the work and send me email reports of
the outcome.
I have NEVER been able to backup all of the Redhat/mail/dns/router server
and then just untar it back to a newly installed and reboot and resume.
Seems that I can only backup /etc /var/named /home /var/spool/mail and then
rebuild the other stuff by hand.
I guess my point, as I am sure you are wondering what it is, is this:
How-Where-What for Simple, reliable backup from a single SCSI tape drive for
two machines, one the machine the drive is one the other using a samba
server. To be able to create a "restore" system to boot from a floppy
re-fdisk and restore the tape and voila!
Is this possible without the purchase of a third-party backup solution?
Thanks for any pointers or suggestions.
Regards,
Steven Hildreth
Information Technology Manager
Aprotex Corporation, http://www.aprotex.com
"Proven Property Protection Since 1952"
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