3.11. System backup
In this section, we discuss backup solutions available for Linux on pseries. We describe the installation of Tivoli® Storage Manager (TSM) in 8.3, “Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)” on page 406. In addition to commercial solutions, there are many UNIX built-ins, such as tar, cpio or pax, which can be used for local, tape or network backups.
For network backups, we can also use rsync. It transfers data compressed and through ssh, it can be used to make incremental and rotating backups. Some generic examples for using rsync as a backup tool can be found at:
http://rsync.samba.org/examples.html
There are also many scripts that utilize rsync to do more comfortable and sophisticated network backups:
RIBS is available at:
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