How do I Backup in Unix?

[robin45]

Hi,

I am a newbie in linux. I want to know backup commands under Unix. So that I can back up my system files and the data. What's the easiest and most reliable approach for a Linux backup? Can anyone recommend a simple step by step tutorial?

[Icarusul]

Tar was originally written to backup data to tape, but in fact, a general purpose library program. Tar supports to take this everything to make a reliable backup, it supports extended attributes.

The tar command to backup your filesystem would be:

tar -cvf /dev/st0 /

[Seraphim]

AMANDA advanced Maryland automatic network disk archiver, is a backup system to which the manager of a LAN for the establishment of a single master backup server for the support of multiple hosts one large capacity tape drive. amanda uses native dumping and/or gnu tar facilities and able to follow up a large number workstations running several versions of Unix. amanda can also use SAMBA to follow hosts running Microsoft windows.

[Hoobastank]

dump is a newer Unix command than DD, tar, or cpio. dump is designed for a simplified backups of a full filesystem. dump must accompany all the files in filesystem, or files changed after a certain date the magnetic tape or files. The main specifies the date and other options on the landfill. Main consists of characters in the series 0123456789fuscdbwwn. No argument was provided for concrete options will be given as subsequent words on the command line, in the same order as that of the options.

dump command to backup your filesystem :

dump -0ua -f /dev/nst0 /