From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 26 22:26:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4AFA1548B for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:26:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bitsurfr@enteract.com) Received: from wildrock (207-229-172-35.d.enteract.com [207.229.172.35]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA19179; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:26:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bitsurfr@enteract.com) From: "Chris Silva" To: "David Deaven" , "Chris Hill" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions list" Subject: RE: Backup - opinions wanted Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:25:42 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-reply-to: <200001270611.AAA00163@pop04.execpc.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a 4 mm DAT, I was thinking of using Amanda (/usr/ports/misc/amanda24) But, after looking into it, I didn't want to deal with the lack of functions. I found Flexbackup (/usr/ports/sysutils) - This thing is sweet - I have tons of options for full, incr. etc. backups. Even spanning other boxes via ssh ;) Again, I use a DAT Best regards, Chris _____________________________________________________________________ DH/DSS Fingerprint = 8265 0BB8 2C7D A376 3CCD 6858 8630 0E47 194A 0318 RSA Key Fingerprint = 4390 44E5 E316 F2AA A11E 5755 F3F9 D69B PGP Mail encouraged / preferred - keys available on common key servers _____________________________________________________________________ Proud supporter of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David Deaven > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 12:16 AM > To: Chris Hill > Cc: FreeBSD Questions list > Subject: Re: Backup - opinions wanted > > > > I have been using a CDRW drive, and am very happy. My system > requires 5 CDs > for a level 0 backup (full backup), so it is about 5 * 650Mb ~ > 3.2Gb. I run a > daily perl script via periodic(8) which backs up unix filesystems (with > dump(8)) and msdos filesystems (with tar(1) with timestamps), and > do level 0, > 1, and 2 backups. The level 1 and 2 backups go daily, I start a > fresh CD > with a level 1 and keep adding level 2 backups in multisession > tracks (use > mkisofs(1) and cdrecord(1)), until the level 1 backups are requiring > 200-300Mb, then it's time for another level 0, done manually. > All CD data > written gets verified by the script. > > Works like a charm. So, unless you have a really big system, do > not discount > CDRW drives. they are cheap and reliable these days, and you can > use them for > other cool stuff besides backups, too. > > > >I need to start doing backups. To that end, I'd like people's > opinions on whic > >h > >hardware I should buy. Presumably some sort of tape drive, but > which one(s) do > >you like/hate? Why? > > > >The ideal system would use reasonably-priced and > widely-available media, and > >would not itself be horrifically expensive (like DLT). It also > would not make > >too much noise when idle. (As opposed to the external SCSI tape > drive I had > >years ago, whose fan screamed like a banshee whenever the drive > was powered > >on.) > > > >The system in question is running 3.1R and has a Tekram DC390F > SCSI card. It > >will need to back up itself, another FreeBSD box (3.2R) and a > Macintosh (8.1). > > > >Thanks in advance for your thoughts! > > > > > >-- > >Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > >[place witty saying here] > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- > ------------------------------------- > David Deaven deaven@execpc.com > http://www.execpc.com/~deaven > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message