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On Monday 23 October 2006 8:26 pm, Jamie wrote: |
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> A great idea, but a DLT tape drive is well over $1000 here in New Zealand, |
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> and every tape drive I have seen is far more expensive than disk. |
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> My ideal solution would be to somehow back up to a drive on another |
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> machine on the network (assuming that is possible). |
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Patimage works well, if you don't mind unmounting your partitions. |
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Tar is also a cheap alternative. The folloing example commands will tar your |
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root partition and exclude any mounts embedded within: |
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mkdir /mnt/tmp |
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mount -o bind / /mnt/tmp |
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cd /mnt/tmp |
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tar -cvvpjf <wherever>/backup.tbz2 . |
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-jm |
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