> I see. Well. I was going to use Amanda, but I don't want to run inetd or
> xinetd. I do run IP tables, but the less software(especially the port or
> socket kind) the better. So, backing up other computers across ssh or
> something is pretty easy too, but I really just want this ONE system to
> backup itself. So was curious if xfsdump can handle multiple filesystems to
> one tape.
See the xfsdump man page:
Media Management
A single media object can contain many dump streams. Con-
versely, a single dump stream can span multiple media
objects. If a dump stream is sent to a media object
already containing one or more dumps, xfsdump appends the
new dump stream after the last dump stream. Media files
are never overwritten. If end-of-media is encountered
during the course of a dump, the operator is prompted to
insert a new media object into the drive. The dump stream
continuation is appended after the last media file on the
new media object.
Of course I am not quite sure how this translates to linux tapes.
Steve
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> Austin Gonyou
> Systems Architect, CCNA
> Coremetrics, Inc.
> Phone: 512-796-9023
> email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Swartzendruber [mailto:dswartz@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 2:11 PM
> > To: Gonyou, Austin; linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: XFSDUMP and multiple filesystems on one tape
> >
> >
> > At 02:04 PM 6/26/2001 -0500, Gonyou, Austin wrote:
> > >Is that possible? I didn't see any syntax which showed it
> > was. Any ideas on
> > >how to do this would be helpful, or else I guess it's back
> > to tar for me. :)
> >
> > sorry if i'm coming into the middle of this. i'm putting multiple
> > filesystems on
> > individual tapes (xfs) with no problems, but i'm not doing it
> > directly (i use
> > amanda to backup my server - it works fine with xfs).
> >
> >
> >
> >
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