From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Apr 12 16:25:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 066AB14D2D for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 16:25:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA09887; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:23:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <199904122323.TAA09887@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org Cc: David Wolfskill , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: DDS-2/DDS-3 drives References: <199904122028.NAA97638@pau-amma.whistle.com> <199904122210.PAA28883@c2-sab.seanet.com> In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 Apr 1999 15:10:33 PDT." <199904122210.PAA28883@c2-sab.seanet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:23:14 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > David Wolfskill wrote: > > > Which is an excellent reason to make use of software such as "amanda", > > which will (if you let it) use disk space on the "backup server" as a > > big speed-matching buffer... and (not-so-coincidentally) also permit > > concurrent dumps from multiple filesystems. > > I don't suppose amanda has [duck and run!] MS Windoze clients, does > it? At the moment I'm trying to think of a reasonable way to get all > my systems backed up...the best I can think of is to install Samba and > a staging area disk on my FreeBSD box - then run some disk-to-disk > backup software on the Windoze boxes to copy files to the staging > area. Then back up with dump/tar/amanda/whatever from there. This is > a home network with (at the moment) 1 BSD box and 2 Windoze boxes. > > Any other suggestions? Install Samba, but use the smbclient program on the backup host to write a tar file of the remote Windows volume. Either do this directly to tape or a local file. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message