Speaking of backups, has anybody tried Mondo Rescue? http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ Looks cool. I read an article about it a month or so ago in LJ or Linux Mag (can't remember which). Here is a blurb from the site: -------------- What is Mondo? ...It backs up your filesystem to tape, CD-R, CD-RW or NFS partition.In the event of catastrophic data loss, you will be able to restore some or all of your data, from bare metal if necessary. Mondo is cool. Mondo supports LVM, RAID and almost any filesystem you can name. You may even backup non-Linux partitions at the same time. -------------- I have used Amanda (did not set it up), just used it. I liked the reminder mails from the "you forgot to switch tapes" before you go home for the day, and the ability to write to a filesystem to dump the next day if you hosed something up. Kelly Black KB0GBJ On Thursday 14 February 2002 18:04, Mike Hicks wrote: > "Jason Lohrenz" <jmlohren at citilink.com> wrote: > > I've been using Taper for my backups. > > I have an IDE Seagate TR-5 Tape drive (10/20GB) > > Aparantly Taper has problems with the latest Kernel (2.4.9-21). > > If I boot into 2.4.7-10 it works fine. > > Any suggestions on other backup methods? > > I'm using Amanda to back up two systems (and I might add a third if I can > ever figure out how to get my laptop into a dump cycle -- that'd involve > it powering up in the middle of the night, checking if it's on AC power, > waiting for the dump to complete, and then suspending again). > > Amanda is great if you don't mind the way it works, and can work around > the "can't have a dump bigger than a tape" problem. > > I've got a DDS-3 drive at home, which holds 12GB native. This is fine for > most of my system, but I had to divide up my big `media' partition into > separate subdirectories. Amanda will let you exclude certain directories > from a dump, which is what I do. A while back, I divided my music folders > into A-M and N-Z chunks, then used symlinks to emulate having them all in > one directory. It works decently enough. > > I was kind of scared of Amanda at first, but I just sat down and read > through the configuration file. It was pretty easy to do, just took a > while. > > For the most part, Amanda is fire-and-forget. However, if you have a > catastrophic system failure (losing the disk your root partition is on, > for instance), it can be a pain to restore. It's possible, since Amanda > just uses tar/gzip or whatever `dump' program is appropriate for your > system, but it can be difficult.