[CLUE-Tech] Help with remote backup problem

[Chris Hirsch]

> I have 3 servers that need to be backed up.  One of them houses a 
> 40/80 DLT drive.  I was trying to use GNU tar, however this much data 
> was taking f-o-r-e-v-e-r to finish.  So I discovered 'star'.  
> Something about this program makes it MUCH faster for network backups.
> Anyhow, here's the situation.  On the server with the tape drive, I 
> run a nightly perl program that first backs up the local files using 
> star, then backs up the two remote servers using rsh to call star and 
> pipes back to dd to write it to the tape drive.
> The problem I'm having is that when I try and un-star either the 2nd 
> or 3rd file, I get:

To make life eaiser (it certainly did mine) you may want to check out 
http://www.bacula.org This is a cross-platform backup program 
(Mac/Unix/Windows/etc) with naitive clients for each OS. It can do 
remote backups, it works with disk, tape etc. The initial learning cuve 
kinda hurts but after that you wonder why you did anything else.

Hope it helps!
Chris

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