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From: Rick Duvall <maillist@coastsight.com>
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Subject: Backup and Verify
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What is the best way to back up a FreeBSD system to tape and verify the
backup.  I have been trying with dump, but I don't know of any way to
verify that.  Then, I tried tar with the -W option, and that didn't work
(guess my tape drive doesn't support it).  Amanda won't work for us
because I find it isn't really designed for a single box, but rather for
backing up and restoring multiple boxes, AND it's too difficult for the
average ordinary layman to do a disaster recovery with Amanda on a totally
dead system.

Here are my requirements:

* Backups must be done on the live system (single machine with a tape
drive)

* Backups must be level 0 every time, and must be verified. 

* Backups must be logged, especially the verify 

* After the verify, the tape must eject.

* Must have a disaster recovery solution so that if I get hit by a Mac
Truck, the average joe blow can do the disaster recovery.  I prefer a
bootable cd they can put in which will boot, and ask for the last tape,
and will do the restore on a new hard drive, partition it and everything.  
virtually no user input for disaster recovery.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Sincerely,

Rick Duvall


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