incremental backup on tape drive

nayan123 · 02-02-2012, 11:49 PM

Dear Sir,

I want to take backup on LTO4 for Linux partition (mounted as user home ). How can I take incremental backup . I have 8 partition belongs to 8 home (including numbers of home on each partition ) in my NIS server and eight LTO4 tape drive. How can I take incremental data backup? Is there any GUI third party software there or any kind of script have to be run. Please help in this regards. I am totally stuck on it.

Regards
Nayan

lithos · 02-03-2012, 03:20 AM

Hi,

Try look at my script for making incremental backups with TAR
-> post "Incremental Backup with TAR / simple FTP to another location and email status"

you can try including the directories in the include.txt file:

Code:

/home/
/home1/
/home2/

...
etc.

and leave out the FTP-ing part

Code:

# DELETE all these lines as they do FTP transfer

echo "FTP start:" >>stopwatch-$ARCHIVENAME.txt
# again I dont need exact time procedure { time ./lftpscript.sh; } 2>> stopwatch-$ARCHIVENAME.txt
{ ./lftpscript.sh; } 2>> stopwatch-$ARCHIVENAME.txt

ftpstop1=$(date +"%T h ( %s )")
ftpstopped=$(date +%s)

ftptime=$(($ftpstopped-$ftpstarted))

echo " " >>stopwatch-$ARCHIVENAME.txt
echo "Start of FTP: " $stopped1 >>stopwatch-$ARCHIVENAME.txt
echo "End of FTP: " $ftpstop1 >>stopwatch-$ARCHIVENAME.txt
echo "Time of FTP transfer: " $(date -d "1970-01-01 $ftptime sec" +"%H:%M:%S") / $ftptime "secs" >>stopwatch-$ARCHIVENAME.txt

and do the copy file to LTO tape instead (I don't know how exactly)

Reuti · 02-05-2012, 01:37 PM

An often used application for backups is Bacula, it has a GUI too.