I looked at it a while ago, and was helpful. One which would be helpful to add, IMO, would be to show an option on how to compress data going through tar. A question I have about tar: Can it span tapes? If so, how and would it be worth the risks? I have an old DDS-1 drive. The old 4GB of compressed data limitation kind of sucks. Scot, can you show an example of your scripts? Would be good to see how you do it for ideas. I have some external machines to backup, so scp will be used instead. On a side note, I've been seeing an ad in the past couple of LJ's for a free personal edition of Storix. Never heard of them, but worth looking into: http://www.storix.com Thanks, Shawn On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:25:27 -0600 Scot Jenkins <scot at thinkunix.net> wrote: > I use dump/restore over NFS. level 0 once a week (full backups) and > level 1 the other 6 days (partials). I keep 2 weeks of system backups > > on line and once a week I put them to tape. All home brew scripts. > works for me. > > I gave a talk on backups several months ago; my presentation notes are > > here if you're interested: http://thinkunix.net/docs/backup-overview/ > > Thomas Johnson wrote: > > i'm just curious what method/program everyone is using for backups, > > specifically for personal boxes. >