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Date:      Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:00:25 -0500
From:      TrouBle <trouble@hackfurby.com>
To:        John <papalia@UDel.Edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tape backups
Message-ID:  <37E13E48.4C9F473A@hackfurby.com>
References:  <4.1.19990914142612.0094da30@unix01.voicenet.com>

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John wrote:

> Hi all -
>
> 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
> total HD space of the 5 machines combined, so that's not a problem.  I'm
> assuming that this will be possible to do using dumps over NFS, however I
> was hoping for some confirmation from someone with more experience in this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> John
>
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