Backup home directories in Linux
Q. I would like to Backup all directories in /home to /dev/st0 tape drive. How do I use script to automate task and what commands do I need to use?
A. Use tar command to backup /home directory. The GNU version of the tar archiving utility included with all Linux distributions. Following tar command also works with Solaris/HP-UX UNIX and FreeBSD/*BSD oses.
For example tar command to backup /home should be as follows:
# tar -czf /dev/st0 /home
Where,
=> /dev/st0 : Linux SCSI Tape device name
=> /home : Home directory name
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January 8th, 2008 at 7:08 am
This site is extremely helpful in learning scsi tape backup in Linux. I wish you good luck and thank you all for the help.