Date: 08 Jun 2000 00:06:22 CEST From: Klaus Herrmann <klaus.herrmann@goelz.com> To: webmaster@wmptl.com, Klaus Herrmann <klaus.herrmann@goelz.com>, Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backup solution Message-ID: <200006072206.AAA00799@wunderland.own>
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On Wed, 07 Jun 2000 13:10:22 -0400, Nathan Vidican said: > Klaus Herrmann wrote: > > > > Hi Everybody! > > > > I am looking for a backup solution for our server. It runs > FreeBSD-3.4S. I > > don't need any network solution and stuff, i just want to backup > to harddisks > > (~30GB each). the media is 30GB-DAT-Tapes. right now i am using > tar and it > > works quite well, but we have to restore single files quite often, > and it > > really takes to much time to restore a file with tar. so my > requirements are > > (1) multiple volume support (would be great if i can enable > software > > compression on multiple volume archives) > > (2) fast recovery of files (-> prog has to write an index of the > files) > > (3) support of multiple backup sets (configurations) (e.g. backup > system only, > > backup fileserver stuff only etc.) > > (4) easy to use (via GUI on vnc or runinning in the background or > whatever), > > because unix-non-professionals have to administrate it. maybe tell > people via > > mail that the next volume is needed etc. > > > man dump this doea't really content me, sorry. see (3), i don't have a seperate filesystem for every set :-( but anyway this seems to be what i have to do. is there any compftable frontend? do i have do use mt oder whatever to find the seperate filesystems on my tape? thanks + bye, Klaus -- Klaus Herrmann Goelz & Schwarz GmbH Waltherstr. 29 80337 Muenchen klaus.herrmann@goelz.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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