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From: mwhite@freehold.cs.columbia.edu (Matt White)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Tape Backup solution (s?)
Date: 18 Oct 1996 16:44:53 GMT
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
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man dump
man restore
If you have a SCSI tape, you want to use the /dev/nrst0 (non-rewind
device) for all but the last volume, when you want to use /dev/rst0.
-Matt
In article <ADzetAs47F@qsar.chem.msu.su>,
"Eugene Radchenko" <eugene@qsar.chem.msu.su> writes:
> Hi people!
> I wonder if someone can recommend the backup solution with the following
> features:
> 1 - ability to store several backup sets (e.g. different filesystems)
> 2 - ability to completely restore a FS (down to each symlink etc. i.e.
> completely reproduce the original system)
> 3 - ability to selectively restore specific files
>
> Am I naive to hope for a single solution? If so, which programs are better
> for each type of problem (2 and 3)?
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Matt White
Dept of Computer Science mwhite@cs.columbia.edu
Columbia University http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~mwhite
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#!/bin/sh
# Shell Script to handle my backups
#
host=`hostname -s`
date=`date`
day=`date | sed y/" "/"\n"/ | sed 2,'$'d`
echo "Subject: $host Daily Backups"
if [ $day = "Sun" ] ; then
dumpcmd="8ufB" ;
elif [ $day = "Mon" ] ; then
dumpcmd="7ufB" ;
elif [ $day = "Tue" ] ; then
dumpcmd="6ufB" ;
elif [ $day = "Wed" ] ; then
dumpcmd="5ufB" ;
elif [ $day = "Thu" ] ; then
dumpcmd="4ufB" ;
elif [ $day = "Fri" ] ; then
dumpcmd="0ufB" ;
elif [ $day = "Sat" ] ; then
dumpcmd="9ufB" ;
fi
echo $date: Doing $dumpcmd dump of /, /var and /usr...
dump $dumpcmd /dev/nrst0 9999999 /
dump $dumpcmd /dev/nrst0 9999999 /var
dump $dumpcmd /dev/rst0 9999999 /usr
echo ...done!
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