[CLUE-Tech] tape backups
Mike Staver
staver at fimble.com
Wed Aug 14 14:33:30 MDT 2002
Oh, one quick last question - say my tape has no filesystem currently on
it and is completely blank... how would I format it?
Randy Arabie wrote:
>
> 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.
> --
> Cheerio!
>
> Randy
>
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