Re: [cobalt-developers] Backups - Newbie

[Jessica <jmoira@xxxxxxxxxx>]

See

http://www.cobalt.com/support/kb/search.php3?ques=tar&qid=751&language=1


Make your adaptation to tar the correct paths for the directories/files to 
be tar'd
and to what directory you will wish to place the tar'd file.
I also suggest adding a -ps argument as well, in your case,
i.e.

tar -cfps /home/tmp/backup.tar /home/sites

As stated, you could download the tar'd package at intervals and
decompress it when needed with any Unix Apple or MS-Windows
tool to restore to any other server if needed,
or you can restore by using "tar -fvx" to extract back to a directory location.
Watch out for how you assign paths to avoid "/home/sites/home/sites/" type 
of errors.
Suggest practice with a single directory, perhaps.


Jessica McDonald Ph.D.
http://www.jmoira.com
mailto:jmoira@xxxxxxxxxx



At 10:07 PM 8/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
> Since Im not a unix/linux command line person, can you give me
> the command to use via telnet login of su to make it happen ?
>
> first drive is "home"  Second drive is "drive2"  Your assistance will
> be mucho appreciated..  and would that tar file be in the root of the
> second drive ?
>
> Thanks in advance !
> Lennie
>
>
> Lennie Core schrieb:
>
> > Then I used a spare IP that I had and setup a fake domain name for
> > it on the second drive.  This way, I go to my admin on the raq and
> > maintenance, created a scheduled backup, and have it ftp to the
> > second drive IP address.  It only takes a few mins for a full backup
> > of the RAq, however, I'm still shakey about what would happen
> > when I need to use the reverse to recover from a home drive failure.
>
> why don`t you just tar to a directory on the second drive ? why wasting
> your bandwith ?
>
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>
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