MKS Toolkit
Backup and Tape Handling Solutions Guide



MKS Inc.
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July 2005

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Choosing Data to Back Up

    Choosing the Right Tools

    Implementing the Solution

    About This Document

  3. Backups in a Windows Environment
  4. The MKS Toolkit Solution

    Scheduling Backups in a Windows Environment

    MKS Toolkit Scheduler

    The MKS Toolkit Command-Line Scheduling Utilities

    AlertCentre

    Backing up Workstations

    Using ntbackup with MKS Toolkit

  5. Backups in a Mixed Environment
  6. Backing up UNIX Data from Windows

    Running UNIX Backups from Windows

    Running Windows Backups from UNIX

    MKS Toolkit Remote and Secure Services

    Mounted Windows Drives

    Comparing UNIX and Windows Systems

    File and Path Names

    Path Name Lengths

    Block Sizes

  7. Compression
  8. Compression Utilities

    Compression Methods

    Lempel-Ziv Adaptive (LZW)

    Lempel-Ziv (LZ77)

    Burrows-Wheeler

    Huffman

    Using the Compression Utilities

    Compressing a File

    Decompressing a File

    Viewing and Redirecting Decompressed Contents

    Using zip Archives

  9. Tools
  10. The tar Utility

    Options

    Using tar

    Interoperability Issues

    The cpio Utility

    Options

    Using cpio

    Interoperability Issues

    The pax Utility

    Options

    Using pax

    Interoperability Issues

    The Visual Pax Utility

    Menu Items

    The mt Utility

    Commands

    Using mt

    Interoperability Issues

    The dd Utility

    Parameters

    Using dd

    Interoperability Issues

    The mkszip Utility

    Options

    Using mkszip

    Interoperability Issues

    The uncompress and zcat Utilities

    Options

    Using uncompress and zcat

    Interoperability Issues

    The gzip, gunzip, and gzcat Utilities

    Options

    Using gzip, gunzip, and gzcat

    Interoperability Issues

    The bzip2, bunzip2, and bz2cat Utilities

    Options

    Using bzip2, bunzip2, and bz2cat

    Related Utilities

    Interoperability Issues

    The zip Utility

    Options

    Using zip

    Interoperability Issues

    The unzip Utility

    Options

    Using unzip

    Interoperability Issues

    The pack Utility

    Options

    Using pack

    Interoperability Issues

    The unpack and pcat Utilities

    Options

    Using unpack and pcat

    Interoperability Issues

  11. Devices
  12. Disk Drives

    CD-RW Drives

    Zip Drives

    Tape Drives and Drivers

    Tape Device Names

    Raw Input/Output

  13. Tasks
  14. A Sample File Hierarchy

    Choosing an Archive Format

    Creating an Archive File

    tar Format

    USTAR Format

    cpio Format

    With Visual Pax

    Creating a Tape Archive

    Creating Multiple Archives on a Single Tape

    Listing the Contents of an Archive

    With Visual Pax

    Restoring an Archive File

    Restoring Selected Files

    With Visual Pax

    Restoring a Tape Archive

    Multiple Archives on a Single Tape

    Creating an Enhanced Archive

    With Visual Pax

    Restoring an Enhanced Archive

    With Visual Pax

    Creating Incremental Backups

    Restoring Incremental Backups

    Restoring a UNIX Tape on Windows

    With Visual Pax

    Mirroring a Hard Drive

  15. Troubleshooting
  1. Archive Formats
  2. tar Format

    USTAR Format

    cpio Format

    Relative versus Absolute Path Names

  3. Preserving Windows Security Information
  4. Enabling Enhanced Archiving

    Enhanced Archives

    Creating Enhanced Archives

    Restoring Enhanced Archives

    With Pre-7.5 Versions of MKS Toolkit

    Tables of Content for Enhanced Archives

    Appending to an Enhanced Archive

    Restoring DACLs

   Index