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So I thought I'd get a head start for next week - I have a low-power Linux box that has a few samba shares mounted, and limited hard disk space. This box is connected to a tape library via SCSI card. I want to find the best way to create a full, then incremental backup of the samba mounts, directly to tape. Some of the samba mounts are appliances that cannot run any special

...t=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: ... > I'm looking at tar as an option, with its --incremental switch. Bacula > uses a mysql database. I tried setting it up and it was not so easy, so > I opted to use my time for other tasks. Same for Amanda. I use: cd / tar cvlbf 512 /dev/nst0 \ --multi-volume --new-volume-script /usr/local/bin/mtxnext \ --ignore-failed-read \ --listed-incremental /home/root/backup/incremental_logfile \ . >$LOGDIR/root_$BACKUPDATE.log 2>&1 A full backup is done once every week, followed...