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From: rudy@hcl.com (Rudy Amid)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Backups - which method do you prefer?
Date: 16 Jul 1995 14:12:24 -0400
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Brian Uytiepo (uytbrian@mail.stardate.com) wrote:
: Use tar and cron to do incremental and master backups in the background, 
: usually during slow or non-peak usage hours. This should give you 
: maximum portability in case you have to restore to any other flavor of 
: unix, plus IMHO, you can find the most plentiful and reliable numbers of 
: file converters and readers for other OS's for the tar format, in case 
: you have to restore to a LAN/OS or NT or VAX format, not to mention DOS 
: or EBCDIC(yuk!).  There are also a number of compressed and completely 
: automated background or foreground utility programs like C/tar, 
: Lone-tar, Btar, etc... which can restore your system from scratch in 15 
: minutes to a reformatted HD or cluster or even a new platform. The 
: question is, are the man-hours(perhaps man-years of time) you've put 
: into setting up your system worth a couple hundred bucks? You decide.

  We have an Exabyte 8500 and 9 different unix hosts.  You think tar will
do the trick for incremental backups?  How is it done?

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