[Gllug] backup

[Julian Parker]

Hi folks,

I have a small PC running FC2, I had previously done backups to DLT35/70 
but for some reason it now craps out with SCSI errors, this did not 
happen on RH 8.0 or on FC1. To get round this I purchased one of these; 
http://www.iomega-europe.com/eu/Products.aspx?productId=HDD160GBNetwork

For use in Windows, the drive is really good. In Linux I can map the 
drive and back up partitions but I'm after alternatives for backup tools.

Currently when I backup the Linux partitions I get various degrees of 
success;

If I use "cd /data; find . | cpio -puvdm /backup/data" the backup runs 
but takes *ages* but does complete.
If I use "dump 0b 64 -f - /data | (cd /backup/data; restore rf -)" the 
backup runs realy quick but errors because the file list is too long
I've not tried tar yet

Worth noting is that the file system format on the network hard drive is 
FAT32 so I believe I'm limited to 4GB files which restricts just 
creating a large single archive file to the drive.

Can anyone offer some alternatives.

Cheers

J
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