01-25-2002
I assume what you are asking for is this... You want to backup a SCO Unix server and possibly Install it on a different machine? Or Do you just want data backup?
If you want data backup, then there are built in utilities for backing up your SCO Unix server. 'tar' and 'cpio' as well as 'dump'. I favor the 'tar' and the 'cpio' utilities over 'dump'.
Another solution is to purchase a 3rd party software application such as Microlite Corporations - BackupEdge
If you are wanting to backup your SCO Unix server and move to a different box it's best to install the O/S on the new server and then restore your user filesystems. Unless your hardware is identical on both machines, you are asking for a bigger headache than it's worth. There is a 3rd party software application from Microlite Corporation - RecoverEdge - that will allow you to create a set of recover diskettes along with a master backup and aid you in installing on a new server.
There are certainly many other 3rd party products on the market for backup and recovery for SCO Unix and other Unix platforms. My intent was not promote a product, but simply make you aware.
Any additional help I can be, please provide more details of your project.
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backintime(1) USER COMMANDS backintime(1)
NAME
backintime - a simple backup tool for Linux.
This is command line tool. The graphical tools are: backintime-gnome and backintime-kde4.
SYNOPSIS
backintime [ --backup | --backup-job | --snapshots-path | --snapshots-list | --snapshots-list-path | --last-snapshot | --last-snapshot-path
| --help | --version | --license ]
DESCRIPTION
Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux. The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of folders.
All you have to do is configure: where to save snapshots, what folders to backup. You can also specify a backup schedule: disabled, every
5 minutes, every 10 minutes, every hour, every day, every week, every month. To configure it use one of the graphical interfaces available
(backintime-gnome or backintime-kde4).
It acts as a 'user mode' backup tool. This means that you can backup/restore only folders you have write access to (actually you can backup
read-only folders, but you can't restore them).
If you want to run it as root you need to use 'su'.
A new snapshot is created only if something changed since the last snapshot (if any).
A snapshot contains all the files from the selected folders (except for exclude patterns). In order to reduce disk space it use hard-links
(if possible) between snapshots for unchanged files. This way a file of 10Mb, unchanged for 10 snapshots, will use only 10Mb on the disk.
When you restore a file 'A', if it already exists on the file system it will be renamed to 'A.backup.currentdate'.
For automatic backup it use 'cron' so there is no need for a daemon, but 'cron' must be running.
user-callback
During backup process the application can call a user callback at different steps. This callback is "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/backintime/user-
callback" (by default $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is ~/.config).
The first argument is the progile id (1=Main Profile, ...).
The second argument is the progile name.
The third argument is the reason:
1 Backup process begins.
2 Backup process ends.
3 A new snapshot was taken. The extra arguments are snapshot ID and snapshot path.
4 There was an error. The second argument is the error code.
Error codes:
1 The application is not configured.
2 A "take snapshot" process is already running.
3 Can't find snapshots folder (is it on a removable drive ?).
4 A snapshot for "now" already exist.
OPTIONS
-b, --backup
take a snapshot now (if needed)
--backup-job
take a snapshot (if needed) depending on schedule rules (used for cron jobs)
--snapshots-path
display path where is saves the snapshots (if configured)
--snapshots-list
display the list of snapshot IDs (if any)
--snapshots-list-path
display the paths to snapshots (if any)
--last-snapshot
display last snapshot ID (if any)
--last-snapshot-path
display the path to the last snapshot (if any)
-h, --help
display a short help
-v, --version
show version
--license
show license
SEE ALSO
backintime-gnome, backintime-kde4.
Back In Time also has a website: http://backintime.le-web.org
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by BIT Team (<bit-team@lists.launchpad.net>).
version 1.0.10 Mars 2009 backintime(1)