From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 22:01:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA20127 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 22:01:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.vividnet.com (mail.vividnet.com [206.149.144.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA20112 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 22:01:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from aquarius.vividnet.com (postmaster@mail.vividnet.com) by mail.vividnet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA28255; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 21:59:02 -0800 Received: (postmaster@aquarius.vividnet.com) by aquarius.vividnet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA00162; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 21:58:46 -0800 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 21:58:46 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Wang To: "Adam W. Dace" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stable Backup Solutions... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Adam W. Dace wrote: > Hello everyone! > > Just thought I'd toss this idea out and see what everyone thinks. I'm > still relatively new to FreeBSD, and have checked about for a good backup > solution to backup our network here. > > The only one I've found that I -like- is bru, and I -don't- like the cost. > > dump seems rather old/icky/nasty/doesn't work, tar doesn't do > error-recovery well (so i've heard) and afio doesn't have a front-end. > > So. > > I'm thinking of writing what will hopefully be a small perl program, that > will use the wonderous features of find and afio to do > full/incremental/differental backups, hopefully across many machines ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > (using ssh if I'm lucky). > > Sys Admins, users, etc...what do you use? We use amanda to backup our network. It is a client/server backup/restore system based on dump (old/icky/nasty..but it works). Try it out, you might like it. You can find it in FreeBSD ports/package. Oh BTW, there is a kerberos version that does encryption. Sincerely, Brian