Re: [cobalt-users] Backup for Qube2?

[Mike Vanecek <nospam99@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 20:45:44 +0100 (BST), Colin Smith
<colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:>On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Vince D. Kimball wrote:
:>
:>> What are people using to backup their Qubes?  I have a 5 person branch 
:>> office with a Qube and 5 Windows 98 workstations.  Arkeia has been 
:>> suggested but they don't support the Qube or Windows 98 as a server, only a 
:>> client.
:>
:>The Qube 2 comes with a Legato Networker backup client as well as the web 
:>based backup software. I've used Legato extensively on other
:>Unix platforms and it's a very nice backup system. You would need to set
:>up a backup server with a tape drive though.

It does not back up the entire system, just selected data and configuration
files, correct?

:>On the other hand, I use Amanda (http://www.amanda.org/) to backup all my
:>systems at home. Not quite as polished as other backup systems but
:>extremely effective and free. It handles Windows systems through using
:>Samba (which I find a little ugly but it does work). It can be built for a
:>Qube and presuming you put a supported SCSI controller in the PCI slot, it
:>should just work with any SCSI tape drive you want to use.

Does it back up the entire system or just data and config files?  If it backs
up the entire disk, how does it handle symbolic links. One can turn following
them off in Samba, but then the folders are marked as unavailable which can
cause an error message for the backup software. 

I would like to be able to just ghost the entire drive to a ghost image.


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