Tbackup user manual

Koen Holtman, koen@win.tue.nl

V0.9, Apr 1998


Tbackup (three backup) is a user friendly, fault tolerant package for making backups of a Linux filesystem. It is primarily designed to make multi-megabyte backups to a set of floppy disks. It has incremental backups, backup indexes, selective restore, error correcting codes, and more.

1. Tbackup package contents

2. Introduction

3. Installation

4. Basic operation: running tbackup

5. Error recovery and the options menu

6. The `set' choose method

7. Configuring directory sets

8. Incremental backups

9. Command line arguments

10. Running trestore

11. Known bugs

12. Stop here?

13. Selective restore

14. Running tlist

15. Running tguess

16. tguess

17. Extended floppy densities

18. Tape drives

19. High-capacity removable disk drives

20. Running tverify

21. Tbackup on a multiuser system

22. Customization

23. Files and directories

24. Performance tuning

25. Error correcting codes and bad floppies

26. Restoring archives with missing data

27. Tbackup floppy format

28. Restoring files without tbackup

29. Copyright and disclaimer

30. Email address