From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 27 23:17:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from im11.oke.online.no (im11.osl.ttyl.com [148.122.208.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D515D37B400 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 23:17:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.100.16.124] ([193.212.240.202]) by fep2.mta.online.no (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20020228071646.UUIN22153.fep2.mta.online.no@[10.100.16.124]> for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:16:46 +0100 Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:12:52 +0100 From: Eivind Olsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Any good backup-programs? Message-ID: <1189055361.1014883972@[10.100.16.124]> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.0b2 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello. I'd like to implement some backup-solution on my FreeBSD 4.5 box, but I'm not sure which backup-system would be the right for me. I've read a bit about tar, dump, Amanda etc., but I'm not sure what to go for. The FreeBSD-box doesn't have any tapedrive, CD-burner etc., but I'd still like it to be the backup master, creating ISO-images that can be burned on another computer. The backup-solution should be able to handle the following: - backing up selected areas of the FreeBSD-box directory-structure - backing up remote volumes (specifically: SMB shares on two Windows 2K/XP computers) - being capable of doing both full and incremental backups - the backup-data should ideally be put into an ISO image, ready for transfer/burning at another computer - it should keep catalogs of what's being backed up, making it easy to find out where a file or directory was backed up I could always make some rudimentary solution by writing shell or Perl-scripts that do a "tar" of some directories, "smbtar" of some SMB-shares" etc., but if there already exists a solution/framework for this I'll try that instead. -- Eivind Olsen eivind@aminor.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message