From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 15 0:24:20 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 2C62537B401 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 00:24:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net [203.16.214.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C38F43F93 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 00:24:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net) Received: from beta.home (ppp598.sa.padsl.internode.on.net [150.101.246.85]) by smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h2F8OG2c082942 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:54:17 +1030 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Malcolm Kay Organization: At home To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vinum based system Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:58:57 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200303151623.03287.Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net> <87hea5t881.fsf@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <87hea5t881.fsf@strauser.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200303151854.46895.Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net> 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 On Saturday 15 March 2003 17:41, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-03-15T05:53:03Z, Malcolm Kay wri= tes: > > Backups will be written nightly over the LAN to a local disk system a= nd > > 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 yo= u > have other needs beyond the stated requirements? If not, take a look a= t > Amanda. It's in ports, and may save you a lot of work. I'll take a look; but it seems to me that the requirement is for little m= ore=20 than a few rather simple scripts triggered by cron. Maybe I'm overlooking something; Thanks anyway. Malcolm=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message