From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Dec 13 20:56: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13B3237B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 20:56:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.lambertfam.org (www.lambertfam.org [216.223.196.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 735DC43ED8 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 20:56:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lambert@lambertfam.org) Received: from laptop.lambertfam.org (unknown [10.1.0.2]) by mail.lambertfam.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E990351CA for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:55:53 -0500 (EST) Received: by laptop.lambertfam.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0FC0E28B09; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:55:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:55:52 -0500 From: Scott Lambert To: FreeBSD -STABLE list Subject: Re: network backup Message-ID: <20021214045551.GA9611@laptop.lambertfam.org> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD -STABLE list References: <20021213180527.6B64543EA9@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <3DFA4F55.A70AF71F@tcworks.net> <20021213233920.GA13094@blazingdot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021213233920.GA13094@blazingdot.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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