Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:46:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Duvall <maillist@coastsight.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Backup and Verify Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104170938550.51494-100000@ns1.coastsight.com>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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