Bacula – Sony SDT 10000 Bacula is the network backup solution. I’ve been using since (just over a year). I’m pretty impressed with it. At BSDCan I was presented with a Sony STD 10000 DAT drive, a donation from a reader, which will help with my backups and with my work on Bacula. Backup solutions […]
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Bacula: Cross-Platform Client-Server Backups This article originally appeared on the ONLamp website. Backup solutions are many and varied. Make sure you choose the right backup software. When people go looking for Open Source backup solutions, Amanda is usually mentioned first. When I started looking for a backup solution, I started there, but before I finished
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Backups and serial console servers It’s funny what keeps us awake at night. It might be the root beer and popcorn I had about 9 hours ago as I sat and watched a movie. Or it might be that I have two pet projects on the go and they are about to reach a milestone.
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rsync – synchronizing two file trees This article originally appeared quite some time ago. But for some unknown reason, it was lost from the indexes. I’ve just come back to upgrade it with some new error observations. We now return you to your regularly scheduled read… rsync is an amazing and powerful tool for moving
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drive to drive backup Right after I finished finishing adding a new drive, I had to copy the contents of an existing drive to that new drive. This was pretty easy. The more I learn about tar, the more I like it. tar is your friend First, I mounted the destination drive as /backup: #
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How to restore from a tape backup if your hard drive dies Troy P. Bahan wrote in with this great little article, which I’m sure some of you will need sooner or later. I know I’m going to need it one day. Let’s face it: hard disks fail. Better to be prepared than sorry. The
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Backing up FreeBSD onto a Windows NT Workstation I have a Windows NT workstation. And it contains a DAT drive. So this topic is near and dear to my heart. So thanks to Chris for writing this article. 27 November 1999 – I’ve added my backup script to the end of the article. How to
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