Hi, how long to you have to store the backups ? I am asking because the lifetime of a DVD is worst compared to a tape, and simple tape drives are not as expensive as they were anymore... >From the application side, if you want to backup on regular basis and special amount of filesystems/directories maybe rsync or even an backup application like amanda is quite usefull ... Cheers Alex On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 12:42 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 12:39 +0100, A. Lanza wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I'm looking for a solution to backup data on a server on a monthly > > basis. The amount of data to be backed up is about 20 GB. I do not have > > any tape drives but have a DVD drive. I'd like to store the backups on a > > few DVDs. > > > > I use tar to get the complete backup done. How can i split the file in > > 4,7 GB. individual files and record them on DVDs? > > Use the split command. > > > > > Is there a better way to manage backups? I'm sure there is, but don't > > know :( and i haven't found any backup tool in FC3... > > > > I'd appreciate your help, > > > > Alf > > > > > -- > Regards > > Joachim Backes > > Joachim Backes <backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center, > High Performance Computing, > D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany > -------------------------------------------------- > Phone: +49-631-205-2438, FAX: +49-631-205-3056 > http://hlrwm.rhrk.uni-kl.de/home/staff/backes.html > -- ======================================================= Alexander Spanke System Analyst NEC High Performance Computing Europe GmbH Prinzenallee 11 D-40549 Duesseldorf, Germany Tel: +49 211 5369 146 aspanke@xxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +49 211 5369 199 http://www.hpce.nec.com =======================================================
