From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 29 14:02:33 2004 Return-Path: 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 4744916A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:02:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail2.firstlink.com (mail2.firstlink.com [66.37.141.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DAC243D2D for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:02:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dvm@firstlink.com) Received: from cerebrus (66-37-143-138.corp.firstlink.com [66.37.143.138]) by mail2.firstlink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71070E74AC; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:02:29 -0700 (MST) From: Dan Vande More To: Bob Martin In-Reply-To: <4068997A.9000400@buckhorn.net> References: <20040329183323.GC51870@telus.net> <200403292211.58942.cs@cheasy.de> <4068997A.9000400@buckhorn.net> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1080597729.1256.77.camel@dvmgentoo> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:02:09 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org cc: Christoph Sold Subject: Re: tape backup from remote X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: dvm@firstlink.com List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:02:33 -0000 Some people/networks see no problems with rdump. In most cases, I myself would recommend amanda though. Amanda has the distinct advantage of being able to spool data to the "holding disk" at which point another utility writes this to the tape. This eliminates the t(h?)rashing Christoph mentioned. This is almost word for word out of the documenation. http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html Amanda can also be configured to compress on the client, and send to the server. This is much more efficient than transferring text files, etc. HTH, Dan Vande More