Try tar with compression. Since you have a lot of data consider basing your creation of tar files on the existing directory structure, rather than using exact image opies of your disk.
You will need storage somewhere, not on the disk you are backing up, for the files you create.
Example back up of a primary directory.
Code:
cd /path/to/root_of_disk_device # the mountpoint or the / directory
tar cfz /path/to/backup/device/music.tgz ./music
Why make smaller backups? You want to restore a file. To recover anything that large, decompressing 600 GB and searching for, and restoring filenames is tedious on huge backup files. And requires lots of resources.
Also consider making incremental backups, like once a week. Backup any file that is newer than the time and date of your last backup.
Ok I'm trying to backup a HD using ufsdump but no matter what I do it rewinds the tape after the dump. Now the tape isn't full (only 285mb) and I still have 6 more partitions I want to put on this tape.
How can I stop the tape from rewinding because I can't think of anything.
Also is there any... (4 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I'm writing a shell script that presents the user with various options, they select one (numbered 1-9) and it then excecutes the correct code. No problem, but I'm having slight difficulty with one option.
The user can select to backup all the files in the current directory to another... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm about to start a regular backup schedule for my Linux system.
I need some pointers if I may :)
The system is *mainly* used as a personal home computer (it's actually a laptop running SuSE 9.2) although I do host some client material from it being a PHP developer.
I know that in... (2 Replies)
Hello Mentors,
Before anything else I would like to thanks to all expert here especially Pressy as he guided me to recover our server from disk failure. I posted a lot of question from these forum site concerning on how to recover our server and luckly you guys help me. Our server is now up and... (6 Replies)
Hi,
Iam trying to create a back up file for a log file which is being continously updated.
Is there a way to backup without loosing the log, while the back up is also up to date?
If i try to replace the log with an empty file, I loose the log for some seconds.
If I try to create a... (2 Replies)
we are running aix on are server. we would like to start doing online backups, but the software company that we use is not beeing much help on what files we are backing up. is there a command that will tell me what files that we are backing up. they offer a service that would back it up for use,... (3 Replies)
Hi all!
Here's my situation:
I need to backup a running system before I can bring it down
I've tried performing a ufsdump while it's in multi-user mode but my ufsdump fails because there is too much activity on the system.
So I read that I could use fssnap to create a snapshot of (in my... (3 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I am new to DBA stuff. I wonder if anyone can help me. Task is that, I have 10 databases and need to take backups of all the databases using data pump in Unix/Linux, compress them using gzip and use cron to schedule the job twice a day.
Appreciate if anyone can help me in... (1 Reply)
Hi !
I wonder if in solaris 10 there is a utility similar to ignite in HP-UX that backup entire file systems (/, /usr, /var, /tmp, /home).
I have to backup only the root disk of a server, but ufsdump seem to be backing up individual file systems....only, am I correct? (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
barrybackup
BARRYBACKUP(1) General Commands Manual BARRYBACKUP(1)NAME
barrybackup - Barry Project's backup program for the BlackBerry handheld
SYNOPSIS
barrybackup [-?][-d]
DESCRIPTION
barrybackup is a GUI application for backing up and restoring Blackberry handheld databases.
The application allows for filtering of databases for both backup and restore, so not all databases need to be backed up at once, nor all
restored.
Backups and configuration files are stored by default in the user's home directory, under ~/.barry/backup/PIN. This destination can be
changed in the config dialogs, per device.
The backup files are compressed tarballs containing specially named files for each record of the databases.
OPTIONS -d--debug-output Enables low level protocol debug output written to stdout/stderr.
--display=DISPLAY
Specify which X display to use.
-? --help Show summary of options.
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
TAR FORMAT
Backups are stored in tar format, compressed with gzip. Backup files are named with the following pattern:
PIN-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS[-tag_name].tar.gz
The tag name is optional and is used to name a particular backup.
Each record is appended to the tar file using the following pattern for the filename:
DBname/RecordID RecordTypeID
That is, the database name is used as the directory name, and the filename contains the record ID and record type ID separated by a space.
Database names can contain spaces.
Record IDs are generally unique, but not all Blackberry devices mandate this, so it is possible, but rare, to have two records in the tar
file with the same filename. This is ok. The only problem you'd see is if you expanded such a tar file to a filesystem. The restore
process just reads in the filename sequentially and writes them to the device, so duplicate record IDs are not a problem.
AUTHOR
barrybackup is part of the Barry project. This manual page was written by Chris Frey.
SEE ALSO
http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry
July 28, 2009 BARRYBACKUP(1)