From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 14 23:11:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCDE537B401 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:11:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F2743F75 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:11:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.strauser.com (kirk@pooh.honeypot.net [10.0.5.128]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.8/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2F7BQKU015381 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:11:26 GMT (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum based system From: Kirk Strauser Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 01:11:26 -0600 In-Reply-To: <200303151623.03287.Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net> (Malcolm Kay's message of "Sat, 15 Mar 2003 16:23:03 +1030") Message-ID: <87hea5t881.fsf@strauser.com> Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.2 References: <200303151623.03287.Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 At 2003-03-15T05:53:03Z, Malcolm Kay writes: > Backups will be written nightly over the LAN to a local disk system and > transfered regularly to tape via a scsi tape-drive. You just described Amanda, an open source backup application that a lot of Unix shops use to backup multiple hosts to a single tape server. Do you have other needs beyond the stated requirements? If not, take a look at Amanda. It's in ports, and may save you a lot of work. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message