[NBLUG/talk] UNIX System V backup woes

[gandalf at sonic.net]

I do think it had compression, but I didn't trust that it was compatible 
with anything else so I left it off as the file sizes were really not an 
issue. Man was the first place I looked. I should have tried gzip 
though, don't know if it was there or not. I ended up taring the major 
directories and just doing a sync using WinSCP scripted of the large 
database directories which wouldn't tar into one file due to size 
limitations. Never did get spanning to work with tar. It seemed to be 
set up to span across physical media but not into individual files. The 
solution works nicely and is automated. They are probably dumping the 
system in about six months and going "to the cloud" like so many others. 
Never did get a terminal window under putty to work right with all the 
correct keys. Ended up editing files in notepad and then just dumping 
them into vi.

On 2015-11-10 21:18, Mitch Patenaude wrote:
> I used to administer an old SysV 3.2 box... it's very painful.
> 
> The old original tar (not GNU tar) doesn't support compression, but
> you can do the same with piping... i.e.
> tar cf - /target_dir | gzip > /tmp/target.tar.gz  (if it's old
> enough, then filenames are limited to 14 characters as well.)
> 
> I don't think original tar supported the --exclude-dir= command...
> pretty much all arguments that start with -- won't be supported. 
> There might be an equivalent argument... man is your friend.
> 
> gzip may not exist, but compress is and older command that probably
> will.. uses the .Z extension.
> 
> And Eric is right... $(..) is a construct that isn't in the original
> bourne shell (bash == Bourne Again SHell).  Backticks will work.
> 
>   -- Mitch
> 
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Omar Eljumaily <omar at omnicode.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On the subject of rsync backups, be careful that you keep
>> incremental file changes and deletions for a significant period of
>> time.  A simple mirror of files can get overwritten by malware,
>> especially ransomware.  You need to archive before modifying or
>> deleting files.
>> 
>> Omar
>> 
>> On 10/27/2015 9:06 AM, gandalf at sonic.net wrote:
>> I would prefer not to and again, the problem looks to be solved.
>> WinSCP can be scripted to do backups. I have installed Cygwin or
>> rather the rsync version of it to servers to add rsync capabilities.
>> 
>> Currently I made a tar script that backs up all the important
>> directories and files. The really large directories are just copied
>> en masse to the Windows server.
>> 
>> On 2015-10-26 20:27, Lincoln Peters wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:26 PM <gandalf at sonic.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm sshing from a IBM x3550-M2 Windows Standard Server so no, that
>> won't
>> work.
>> 
>> Could you install Cygwin on the Windows server?
>> 
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