From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 15 6:58: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC4C61526C for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 06:57:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 29444 invoked from network); 15 Sep 1999 13:57:54 -0000 Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.40) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 15 Sep 1999 13:57:54 -0000 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 08:57:54 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: John Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape backups In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990914142612.0094da30@unix01.voicenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, John wrote: > 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 Take a look at amanda (in ports/misc). It is designed for this sort of thing, and works reasonably well. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message