Re: backing up
Miles H. Lasater (miles.lasater@yale.edu)
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:58:40 -0400
At 08:48 PM 4/19/99 +0000, Collin McClendon wrote:
>I'm finding it almost impossible to backup my linux box.
>I have / /usr /usr/local /home partitions.
>I tried tarballing them all onto a second drive but linux cold
>crashed:(.
>I am going to try to use this arkeia program, it seems friendly but I
>can't get it to
>work, and besides I'm not sure how I would reinstall linux from the
>archives I would have
>made, if I could just tar everything I could boot a floppy version of
>linux and restore
>from there...Anyway if anyone has backed up their system let me know...
>
A pretty good back -up solution I've used before is Amanda. It may be more
then you need for a single machine, but it has worked well for me in the past.
Check it out at: http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/amanda/
-Miles