From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 2 21:04:48 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA27513 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 May 1995 21:04:48 -0700 Received: from UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU (root@UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU [129.7.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA27501 for ; Tue, 2 May 1995 21:04:40 -0700 Received: from Taronga.COM by UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU with UUCP id AA11412 (5.67a/IDA-1.5); Tue, 2 May 1995 22:49:47 -0500 Received: by bonkers.taronga.com (smail2.5p) id AA19757; 2 May 95 19:39:39 CDT (Tue) Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA19754; Tue, 2 May 1995 19:39:39 -0500 From: Peter da Silva Message-Id: <199505030039.TAA19754@bonkers.taronga.com> Subject: Re: Compress dumps? To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 19:39:38 -0500 (CDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9505021845.AA08223@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at May 2, 95 12:45:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 499 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Typically, my intermediate backups are incremental, which pushes the > time out considerably before the full backups would be archival, > especially considering a tape rotation of the monthlies. That's another nice thing about Amanda... it makes fulls throughout the backup cycle whenever there's room for them, so you don't get a big hit all at once and it's practical to do more fulls. If you're backing up more than one system and you're not using Amanda you're just making work for yourself.