[Asterisk-Users] Backup for linux/asterisk

[Daniel Bruce Lynes]

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On Thursday 24 March 2005 07:04 pm, Jeff Glassman wrote:

> My question is as follows.  Is there a backup program that will save to
> a tape drive or a USB CD Writer so if I mess up an install I don't have
> to go through a complete reinstall?   I saw a few programs out there but
> they required X windows and from what I read it is suggested that X
> windows not be installed on an Asterisk box.

tar cvf /dev/st0 /usr/local/asterisk

/dev/st0 is your scsi tape drive

/usr/local/asterisk is wherever your install directory is for Asterisk.

To restore it, just type:

tar xvf /dev/st0

ttfn.

Btw, dump will not work on Linux, unless you've got a proprietary dump command 
installed.  The default system utilities for Linux do not include dump.

If your Linux is a modern distro, it might however include xfsdump which 
probably does the same thing as dump, but it will only work on an xfs 
partition.
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