tar: Backups
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1 5 Performing Backups and Restoring Files
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1 GNU 'tar' is distributed along with the scripts for performing backups
1 and restores. Even if there is a good chance those scripts may be
1 satisfying to you, they are not the only scripts or methods available
1 for doing backups and restore. You may well create your own, or use
1 more sophisticated packages dedicated to that purpose.
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1 Some users are enthusiastic about 'Amanda' (The Advanced Maryland
1 Automatic Network Disk Archiver), a backup system developed by James da
1 Silva 'jds@cs.umd.edu' and available on many Unix systems. This is free
1 software, and it is available from <http://www.amanda.org>.
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1 This chapter documents both the provided shell scripts and 'tar'
1 options which are more specific to usage as a backup tool.
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1 To "back up" a file system means to create archives that contain all
1 the files in that file system. Those archives can then be used to
1 restore any or all of those files (for instance if a disk crashes or a
1 file is accidentally deleted). File system "backups" are also called
1 "dumps".
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