indermau@dg (Kurt Indermaur) (06/07/88)
I would like to be able to put a tape in the drive at night and come in early in the morning to remove a perfect incremental backup. Is something like this possible (using dump and a shell script)? Does the system have to be shutdown, and the file system unmounted, to get a reliable backup (i.e., no weird inode errors when restoring)? Any pointers to more complete docu- mentation (not man pages) would also be VERY much appreciated! --Kurt Indermaur (indermau@dg.cs.umn.edu)
andy@bnr-ai.UUCP (Andy Ng) (06/08/88)
In article <5750@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> indermau@dg.cs.umn.edu.UUCP (Kurt Indermaur) writes: >I would like to be able to put a tape in the drive at night and come in >early in the morning to remove a perfect incremental backup. We do an incremental tape backup here every night, by using tar and cron entries. Sorry, but aside from man pages, I haven't used any other reference. Just a crontab addition for root to back up. Maybe it will help ?! - Brian