[CLUE-Tech] tape backups

[Randy Arabie]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Jim Ockers wrote:

> To write the contents of the root filesystem to a tape:
> 
> tar -cvf /dev/st0 /
> 
> To read the contents of the tape back to the root directory:
> 
> cd / ; tar -xvf /dev/st0
> 
> This is about as good as it gets, in my opinion.  Anything fancier is
> just fluff.  :)
> 
> FWIW, I think cpio (if you know how to use it) has better error-recovery
> than tar.  However I've been using tar for ~10 years now and I've never
> had a problem, and I've done dozens of file or system restores and 
> several bare-metal system recovery/restores as well.

WRT scheduling your backups...put your tar commands in an executible shell
script and schedule it with cron.
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Cheerio!
        
Randy