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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory Help finding a Unix friendly RAID 1 backup Post 302507053 by c.wakeman on Tuesday 22nd of March 2011 04:01:51 PM

03-22-2011

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Thanks again for your help so far Corona688.

An update so far:
I used the uname command, we're running Linux.

The decision was made to purchase a cheaper 1 TB external hard drive as a stop-gap measure to make sure the data is backed up before moving ahead with setting up an automatic backup to a dedicated raid 1 array. We purchased a Buffalo Linkstation Live LS-CHL.

The drive can be formatted to to FAT, NTFS, XFS, and HFS+. The server I want to backup is an NTFS file system. I believe the drive comes XFS standard. Should I format the drive to NTFS for compatibility? or is that a non-issue.

The user manual for the drive states the disadvantages of NTFS as:
1) Read-only from the LinkStation or a Mac.
2) Not suitable for backup from the LinkStation.

The relevant disadvantage of XFS is:
You cannot read data by directly connecting to a PC.

Once that is determined, what are the steps I need to take to make a backup .tar of the server files based upon the code you provided earlier?

Quote:

Code:

# On UNIX
tar -cpf - /path/to/files/i/want/to/backup | udp-sender
# On Windows
udp-receiver > file.tar

Does the Unix command simply go in the command line with root access? I assume I change the /path/to/files/i/want/to/backup to the path relevant to my server? What if I simply want to copy all the files on the drive? Do I designate the name of the backup file to be sent before the udp-sender or is built in to be named when received?

On the Windows end, where is that command entered? The command prompt? Can I name the file to be anything I like (probably something along the lines of backupmmddyy.tar or are there restrictions?

Sorry for, what I am sure, are elementary, if not asinine, questions; I really appreciate the responses.

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