Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:55:52 -0500 From: Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org> To: FreeBSD -STABLE list <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: network backup Message-ID: <20021214045551.GA9611@laptop.lambertfam.org> In-Reply-To: <20021213233920.GA13094@blazingdot.com> References: <20021213180527.6B64543EA9@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <3DFA4F55.A70AF71F@tcworks.net> <20021213233920.GA13094@blazingdot.com>
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On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:39:20PM -0800, Marcus L. Reid wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:21:25PM -0600, Chris Cook wrote: > > > > AMANDA (The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) > > > > http://www.amanda.org > > AMANDA is nice, and does a pretty good job. The major limitation > that it has (or rather had when I last used it about a year ago) > is that it can't span a single dump/tar/whatever archive over > multiple tapes. If your partition doesn't fit on a tape, you're > pretty SOL. You might be able to hack around it by splitting things > up a bit, but at the scale this guy's talking about it might not make > a whole lot of sense. Using tar you can manually break the file system into smaller chunks using several starting directories combined with exclude files. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert@lambertfam.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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