From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 15 10:58:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bekool.com (ns2.netquick.net [216.48.34.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0FF91515F for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 10:58:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trouble@hackfurby.com) Received: from bastille.netquick.net ([216.48.32.159] helo=hackfurby.com) by bekool.com with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11RJhQ-000GmC-00; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:22:32 +0000 Message-ID: <37E13E48.4C9F473A@hackfurby.com> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:00:25 -0500 From: TrouBle Reply-To: trouble@hackfurby.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-19990816-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape backups References: <4.1.19990914142612.0094da30@unix01.voicenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG use AMANDA in the FreeBSD ports tree John wrote: > Hi all - > > My boss hit me with this question, and I'm not sure of the answer. We are > looking at buying 5 new servers, all of which will be configured (my > byself.... *gulp*) to run FBSD. In an effort to save $$$, he wants to omit > tape drives from each server, and instead get one server with a > tape-changer in it. In turn, he wants to use that one tape changer to > backup all 5 machines nightly. The capacity of the changer will exceed the > total HD space of the 5 machines combined, so that's not a problem. I'm > assuming that this will be possible to do using dumps over NFS, however I > was hoping for some confirmation from someone with more experience in this? > > Thanks in advance, > John > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message