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Linux System Administration
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Linux System Administration

by Tom Adelstein, Bill Lubanovic
March 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
11h 12m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Backing Up and Archiving to Tape with Amanda
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amy@desk12:~$
The checksum from the MD5 program is the 32-character hexadecimal part. If it is
not the same for both the ISO image file and the contents of the CD-R drive, the
recording is defective.
A failed recording is derisively called a “coaster.” You can use it to protect your cof-
fee table from unsightly rings, but unlike a real drinks coaster, it’ll explode into a
shower of sharp fragments and sparks in a microwave.
When a write to disc fails, try in turn:
1. Repeating the recording with another blank disc
2. Recording at a slower speed
3. Using a different batch or different brand of blank discs
If failures persist, you may have a defective recording drive.
Backing Up and Archiving to Tape with Amanda
Tape is still a popular backup medium. The Advanced Maryland Automated Net-
work Disk Archiver (Amanda) is an open source package that manages tape back-
ups. Developed at the University of Maryland, it’s included in many distributions of
Linux, including Debian. Amanda’s features include:
The use of traditional Unix backup formats such tar and dump
Operation over a LAN, backing up client data to a central tape server
Support for backing up Windows clients via file shares
Support for standard tape devices and many tape changers, jukeboxes, and
stackers
Ability to balance full backups over a multi-day ...
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