[lug] Backup media and programs opinions?

[Ed Hill]

On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 11:19, Ferdinand Schmid wrote:
> Since I need to take backups off site I like tapes.  DAT tapes are certainly cheap and all 
> present.  I haven't evaluated small backup solutions recently - but I did evaluate larger 


As Ferdinand said, DAT tapes are cheap and readily available.  And since
you are only backing up few small-ish disks, you might be able to use
GNU tar and the mtx (mtx.sourceforge.net) utility.  I'm currently using
tar + mtx on both solaris and linux boxes and you can't beat the price.

Ed

ps - The command to automatically backup across a 6-tape DAT box is:

       tar -cMf /dev/st0 -F 'mtx -f /dev/sg0 next'  /path/to/backup

     and this can easily be added to a crontab entry.


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