Very Computer

I've got some experience in Unix but not especially with SCO. Recently I
visited the company where my girlfriend works and took a look at their
backup procedure.

Backup is done there by 'tar -cv8 /' to a DAT Tape.

Now I'm looking (not for my personal profit) for a backup-method which:
- performs an full image backup (including all files you need for fast
recovery after a disk crash)
- performs a verify after backing up
- allows to restore files selectively
- does some logging during backup for checking if backup was done
successfully
- is save enough to run it as cron job

The computer to be backuped is a single PC running SCO Server. No
network dependencies have to be considered.

because I am going on vacation and within the newsgroup the message will
be out of date until I am back (on Aug, 14).

Thanks a lot.

Thomas Stranzinger

Other than that, you can use the following cpio script that works well
out of cron.

cd /
find . >/tmp/backup.files
cpio -ocvO/dev/rStp0 -C10240 </tmp/backup.files 2>/tmp/backup.log
if [ $? = 0 ]
then
        date >/tmp/last.backup
        echo 'last backup completed'
        date
        tape unload /dev/rStp0
fi

Another option is to purchase one of the commercially available backup
utilities like "bru" or "lonetar".