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Linux Pocket Guide
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Linux Pocket Guide

by Daniel J. Barrett
February 2004
Beginner content levelBeginner
200 pages
5h 40m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Backups and Remote Storage

mt

Control a tape drive

dump

Write a disk partition to tape

restore

Restore the results of a dump

tar

Read and write tape archives

cdrecord

Burn a CD-R

rsync

Mirror a set of files onto another device or host

There are various way to back up your precious Linux files:

  • Copy them to a tape drive

  • Burn them onto a CD-R

  • Mirror them to a remote machine

Your tape backup device is usually /dev/ht0 for an IDE drive, or /dev/st0 for a SCSI drive (or for an IDE drive using ide-scsi emulation). It’s common to make a link called /dev/tape to the appropriate device:

$ ln -s /dev/ht0 /dev/tape

We aren’t presenting every Linux command for backups. Some users prefer cpio to tar, and for low-level disk copies, dd is invaluable. See the manpages for these programs if you are interested in them.

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