Anybody using "dump"/"restore" to a remote system?

[Rick Thomas]

Thanks, Nathan!

I haven't got a tape drive for this system, and don't plan to get 
one since ATA disk space is now cheaper per gigabyte than tape 
media alone (even ignoring the fixed cost of the tape drive 
itself!)  My alternative strategy is to build a machine with a 
bunch of big ATA disks, raid5 them together, and do dump/restore to 
it over the network from a cron job on the main server.

At least that *was* the plan until I discovered that dump to a 
remote file died with a segfault.

So I got the source for the latest "dump/restore" from the author's 
web site, and compiled it.  (YDL is using code from source that's 
about 2 years old).  The result of my compiles seems to work, and 
it has some nice new features (as well as fixing my bug).  So I'm 
happy.  Though I would like to get YDL to update their distributed 
dump/restore.

Rick


On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 09:59 PM, nathan r. hruby wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>>  From the total lack of response to this question, can I assume that
>> all you folks out there in YDL-land never do backups?  What do you
>> do when you loose a disk? Or do you just run everything RAID-5?
>>
>>
>> Seriously: How do you back up your YDL machines?
>>
>
> The archives have a few discussions about backups, I think most 
> folks are
> just using tar, as it's a bit more portable across platforms and works
> well.  There are several upper level wrappers, like amanda and 
> flexbackup
> which also work well for automating the drudgery.  YDL even 
> partners with
> the fine folks at BRU, IIRC.  We use some simple custom scripts 
> than can
> be found here (note that I didn't write these):
> ftp://linuxserv.uga.edu/linux/unsupported/backup/
>
> For the most part, backing-up YDL is like backing up any other 
> unix-alike.
>
> -n
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