Concept of network backup Network backup is similar to automated backup. So first read, how the Concept of automated backup works.
If you are in a network, you can declare the machine with the CD-recorder
as the backup server. Export some harddisk space (NFS filesystem - '/backup-part
ition/client
client(rw)' -> see man exports, nfsd) on the server, while you configure a client-boot-CD/-floppy
disk with network support and a harddis
k
partition configured to the server ('server:/backup-partition/client').
Then boot the client with that boot media. Backup server functionality
is not yet implementet on the boot-CD. Run your 'normal' linux (from harddisk)
on the server.
Have a Zip-day on the
client (controlled by /backup-partition/client/cdbl.cfg) to create the
backup files on the NFS-partition. Afterwards on the server
burn the CD-Rs with a non zip-day (now I have a configuration file under
/backup-partition/cdbl.cfg, with Deeper
subdirectory '/client'). The step of burning you can do again from
your 'normal' linux distribution or by starting with the boot-CD (to automate
it - I use the same boot-CD, as for backing up the server itself).
Network support may also be usefull when restoring.