Chewy509
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Hi Guys,
I've been hunting for a backup utility that's a bit more user friendly than the old 'tar' utility. (I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE).
It's for a single workstation with local tape drive (/dev/sa0). Backup set is about 12GB of critical data (email, application source code, personal pics, etc), or 150GB for complete archival data, eg game data, application downloads, pic's, mp3s and movies (aka pr0n). This is a single user PC.
Tape drive is a VXA-1 int SCSI drive on a AHA-39160 controller. Local drives are SCSI RAID (3x 36GB on a ASR-2120S) and a 400GB IDE drive.
I've looked at Amanda, but seems overkill for my situation. Ideally, I just need something inline with ntbackup, (I use ntbackup when running WinXP, don't need anything more). Just enough to select files/folders and let me know size of the total backup, and estimated progress. Don't need to script/schedule the backup as backups are done when I remember to do them, well critical data is done weekly/fortnightly depending on my pc usage, it's the full archive that I only do every 3-6 months... ;-) PC doesn't run 24/7, only when I'm using it.
To be honest, I don't care if the utility is a front-end to 'tar', just needs to be able to handle multi-volume backups correctly and be able to report progress.
Any recommendations??? (I've searched freshports with little success).
Also, anyone know a way to see the current I/O rate for the tape drive? (Just want to make sure I'm feeding the drive quick enough).
PS. For critical data I just do a:
# du -c -h /home /root /etc /mnt/data2 |tail -n 2
to get the backup size, and then
# gtar -cMvf /dev/nsa0 /home /root /etc /mnt/data2
to perform the backup. (BSD tar doesn't support multi-volumes, but GNU tar does? eg -M switch). Then...
# mt rewoffl
to eject the tape
I've been hunting for a backup utility that's a bit more user friendly than the old 'tar' utility. (I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE).
It's for a single workstation with local tape drive (/dev/sa0). Backup set is about 12GB of critical data (email, application source code, personal pics, etc), or 150GB for complete archival data, eg game data, application downloads, pic's, mp3s and movies (aka pr0n). This is a single user PC.
Tape drive is a VXA-1 int SCSI drive on a AHA-39160 controller. Local drives are SCSI RAID (3x 36GB on a ASR-2120S) and a 400GB IDE drive.
I've looked at Amanda, but seems overkill for my situation. Ideally, I just need something inline with ntbackup, (I use ntbackup when running WinXP, don't need anything more). Just enough to select files/folders and let me know size of the total backup, and estimated progress. Don't need to script/schedule the backup as backups are done when I remember to do them, well critical data is done weekly/fortnightly depending on my pc usage, it's the full archive that I only do every 3-6 months... ;-) PC doesn't run 24/7, only when I'm using it.
To be honest, I don't care if the utility is a front-end to 'tar', just needs to be able to handle multi-volume backups correctly and be able to report progress.
Any recommendations??? (I've searched freshports with little success).
Also, anyone know a way to see the current I/O rate for the tape drive? (Just want to make sure I'm feeding the drive quick enough).
PS. For critical data I just do a:
# du -c -h /home /root /etc /mnt/data2 |tail -n 2
to get the backup size, and then
# gtar -cMvf /dev/nsa0 /home /root /etc /mnt/data2
to perform the backup. (BSD tar doesn't support multi-volumes, but GNU tar does? eg -M switch). Then...
# mt rewoffl
to eject the tape