From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 9 14:52:49 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA07442 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:52:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA07435 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:52:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA01411; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:52:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 14:52:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Bill cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BACK UP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Bill wrote: > I am looking for products and/or "strategies" for backing up my FreeBSD > system regularly and unattended. Are there any products, packages, or > "strategies" out there worth looking into? The current backup programs are: tar & cpio dump/rdump amanda Amanda is a backup management program that is excellent for backing up several systems through one or more tapes on a tape host. Dump/rdump back up entire filesystems at once; rdump lets you backup one system to another. tar & cpio are pretty straightforward. The book "UNIX System Administration Handbook" contains some backup strategies, including incremental and Tower of Hanoi sequences. There is some information in the Handbook in Section 10.5. Hope this gets you started. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major