[CLUE-Tech] Tape backup logistics

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 06:37:27PM -0600, Dan Harris wrote:
>1 - copy all the important files through a samba mount from the windows box to 
>/usr/backup on the main server by running a 'cp' on the main file server

Another option is to have the local server back up to /dev/nst0, then some
time later have the web server back up with a destination of "ssh
root at tapeserver dd of=/dev/st0", and maybe just for good measure some time
later run an "mt rewind"...  So, one backup would be appended to another.

afbackup can back up over the network to a tape drive directly, so you
could use that on both machines, but just make sure you run backup
verification.  We had a problem once where a broken "mt" was causing each
successive backup to overwrite the previous one.

Sean
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