Re: [aclug-L] What happened in the 20 APR 1999 meeting....

[John Reinke <ufotofu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What we need to do now is make additions and corrections to the information
below, and post it on a new part of the ACLUG website entitled "Meeting
Notes". Any related URL's or man page references could be included with it
as well. I know there are millions of How-To's and FAQ's out there, but
having our notes available on the web site would make it accessible by
anyone, and could be a good reminder when we know something was covered in
a meeting, but don't remember the exact command.

I feel this form takes the LEAST amount of time, and will be the MOST
accessible. Besides, web pages are a heck of a lot quicker to download
MP3's or movies... When it comes down to it, we just want to see what and
where to type things, right?

John

>"spiff" <spiff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>Thanks, great job!  Just a few additions.
>
>> Tar cons:
>>
>> isn't terribly "user friendly" if you what to pick out a single file on a
>> tape (unless you know what it is), one first has to index the tape, then
>> rewind, then go to the file
>
>This makes it take up to twice as long to restore a single file with
>tar than with dump.
>
>[dump:]
>
>> better restoration interface
>> faster and more reliable
>
>I would say it has a more powerful scheduling system less susceptible
>to human error.
>
>> Taper:
>> didn't talk much about it other then it has a 4 gig limit
>
>Yeah, sorry about that.  Basically, I had one day to prepare the talk
>instead of the usual week or two so it wasn't quite as coherent as I
>would have liked :-(
>
>Anyway, taper is a ncurses (full-screen) program with an interface
>similar to mc or Norton.  Its idea is ease of learning.
>
>> Ok, here is the beef on tar:
>> to do a basic backup the command is as follows to back up the / :
>> tar -cvSpf /dev/(insert tape device or whatever) /
>
>where "tape device" is something like nst0.
>
>> tar -cSpf - /(path) | tar -xvSpf --C /(destination)
>                                    ^
>just one hyphen there
>
>> Now, if you all really, really want, I can post the stuff about the passwd
>> and shadow files as well as the lilo.conf information, but I think this is
>> enough to digest for now.  Feel free to add to it.