Use tar to append?
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Fri Mar 9 07:48:45 UTC 2007
Mike McCarty wrote:
>> wondering why you wouldn't use Amanda.
>
> (1) It requires installing Yet Another Package onto my already
> cramped for free space system.
All the amanda rpms are quite small. The largest is 500K.
> (2) It requires learning how to use Yet Another Package when
> I'm not interested in making my OS be a hobby.
Yes, a personal choice.
> (3) It uses other than Standard Tools, which if I decide to
> move to another OS will make my backups not very usable.
Yeah, that's the problem with open source software. It makes it so hard to
move to a different platform. :-)
BTW, it doesn't use "other than standard tools". It uses either native dump
and/or GNU tar.
> (4) The Standard Tools are perfectly adequate for the task,
> so far.
Right...so far....to a point...
> In fact, I wonder why that is even a question.
Because use of amanda makes a nice way to do backups and takes care of all
problems one may encounter trying to maintain their own set of
tools/scripts. Thought you may want to give it a try. You don't have to.
Just a suggestion. Have fun hacking at tar and gzip.
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