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I'm newer with linux and using RHEL-5.0
i have 2 production server and i need to take incremental backup in weekday and full backup at every Saturday on LTO tape drives so i used tar command to take a full backup but now i need to take incremental backup daily basis so it is possible through tar if not so please suggest me another tool.

sorry for bad english

You can always submit a cron entry to do the backup at a specified time every day. See here:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-...-or-unix-oses/
http://linux.die.net/man/5/crontab

Hope that helps, and what is that you are looking for.

Cheers,

Josh

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now i need to take incremental backup daily basis so it is possible through tar if not so please suggest me another tool.

Yes you can use tar to do a incremental backup on daily basis.
Take a look at
http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap29sec306.html

Kind regards

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Originally Posted by bharatlalgupta (Post 4315535)

You're "newer with linux"? You've been posting questions for TWO YEARS...hardly 'new'.

Have you checked out a purpose-built backup tool, like Bacula or Amanda? If you've got production servers, and you're paying for LTO drives/tapes, and RHEL, consider spending the money needed to make it a very robust solution. Tar is fine for some things, but for rotating backups/tapes, keeping track of file versioning etc., it's not designed for it.