Re: Backup with hard disk and crontab

1999-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AB>> Why not purchase a 4GB DAT drive (afaik, there are IDE dat drives as AB>> well). Backups are to be made on either optical media or magnetic (or AB>> magneto-optical) medias, but backing up a hard drive on another hard drive AB>> is (can't find the word). I'm not sure on this. First, t

Re: Backup with hard disk and crontab

1999-07-24 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Moti Levy wrote: Hi, Why not purchase a 4GB DAT drive (afaik, there are IDE dat drives as well). Backups are to be made on either optical media or magnetic (or magneto-optical) medias, but backing up a hard drive on another hard drive is (can't find the word). --A

Re: Backup with hard disk and crontab

1999-07-24 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
ML>> Its a redhat 5.1 with a 2.3.41 kernel so i dont want to mess with mirror ^^ Could you send a copy to me, CC to Linus and Alan? :) They still think latest kernel is 2.3.11... That would be great service to Linux community - we could skip 30 development steps a

Backup with hard disk and crontab

1999-07-24 Thread Moti Levy
Hi all, I have a linux box which is a mail server for a small company nothing fancy a PII266 and a 4.3 wd hdd. any way i was asked to prepare some sort of backup to it and thought of the following system. 1.connect a similar hd (model and size) 2.partiton it the same way the original hdd 3.use dd