On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 18:15:48 -0600 Scot Jenkins <scot at thinkunix.net> wrote: > man tar for answers to both of your questions: > > to compress files via tar: > > -z, --gzip, --ungzip > filter the archive through gzip > Yep, saw that as well as the -Z option which I believe was the standard compress. > yes, it can span multiple tapes. I've done this without problems. As > always YMMV. > > -M, --multi-volume > create/list/extract multi-volume archive > Cool, thanks. Shoulda paid more attention when reading for that. Thanks for the look at your scripts. > as far as remote backups via scp, similar to above but dd is your > friend: > > ssh remotehost -C "/sbin/dump -0auf - /home | \ > dd of=/<backup_partition>/remotehost-home-full.dump > > this ssh's to remotehost and dumps the /home partition which is piped > to the dd command (which runs on the host you want to store the > backups on); dd writes the output file (of=). If you setup ssh keys > to allow the host doing the backup to ssh to the remotehost without a > password you can run this backup from cron without user intervention. > Yep, plan on using cron/ssh/scp. I'll have to look at the manpage for dd again. I don't recall seeing a compression option there. I was thinking of using scp because of my filesystem being larger than the tapes. Thanks, Shawn