----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 4:46
PM
Subject: RE: [techtalk] Backup
strategy
In my last job I used the free Linux version of Arkeia (http://www.arkeia.com/download.html)
It worked well. Also the documentation is well
written.
HTH,
Davida
-----Original Message-----
From:
jennyw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 3:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [techtalk] Backup strategy
Can anyone suggest where I can go to find out more about
backup strategies?
I have Linux on two machines, and Windows NT on another.
I was thinking of
backing up the Windows machine using
SMB mounted directories. The hardware
I'm using
is a Seagate 24 GB Scorpion DAT drive running off of an Adaptec
AHA-2940 controller (to which a CD-RW drive is also
attached). I'm running
on Progeny Debian 1.0
(which is based on Debian 2.2). This is what I
eventually want to do ... at this point, though, I can't even get the
tape
drive to do a simple backup.
I've tried using tar (e.g., "tar cvf /dev/st0 ." from my home
directory),
taper, and a few other free software
packages (ones that have .deb
packages), but nothing
seems to be able to handle the drive correctly
(they'll back up a few files and then choke when they get to the first
big
file, which is an ISO image -- ~500 MB). I
haven't tried to read anything
off of the tape
yet.
At this point, I'm not sure where to go. I probably need
to learn more
about how to configure and test tape
drives under Linux -- something I'm
pretty clueless
about.
Unfortulatey, most of the info I've seen on the Web and in
books so far
describes floppy tape drives or other
lower capacity drives (e.g., taper's
Web site says it
can only support up to 4 GB). I couldn't find a howto on
backups. Can anyone point to better references? Or suggest some
backup
packages?
Thanks!
Jen
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