[Coco] old backups, RESTORED!

[Steven Hirsch]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Willard Goosey wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 06:09:20PM -0500, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>> On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Willard Goosey wrote:
>>
>>> The crash that finally taught me to do backups was the 2000 crash of
>>> my main Linux machine's drive.  I lost *lots* of stuff there. :-(
>>
>> What are you using for Linux backup now?
>>
> Short answer:  I write tarballs to CD.
>
> Long answer: I wrote my own backup suite to do backups because I have
> lots of different OSes on my network (Linux, AmigaDOS, MS-DOS) and I
> wanted to back them all up.
>
> So I wrote a set of shell scripts (in whatever the native shell is)
> that archives things up, copies the archives over the network to my
> server, and then the server writes them to CD.
>
> Unfortunately, my Mac (MacOS7) crashed after I got netatalk working
> but before I could figure out how to make its script.  I haven't tried
> to make an OS-9+drivewire script yet.
>
> Also, ~ftp is a full CD by itself these days, so I need to do some
> tweaking there.  ;-)
>
> I've been meaning to put it on the web, if you're interested...

No, I'm all set.  I've been using an LTO-2 tape system for a while.  One 
tape holds about 300GB, so it's a one-step operation for the Linux server 
and a second run to do my main workstation.  The hobby machines Apple 2, 
CoCo, etc.) access all the working data from my main fileserver so the 
backup goes along with everything else.

Amiga is a bit more problematic.  From time to time, image the drive in my 
A2000 by physically connecting it to the Linux box, but that's a bit 
cumbersome (Linux understands FFS).




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