From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 17 15:15:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop1.gte.net (smtppop1pub.gte.net [206.46.170.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 197ED37B51D for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 15:15:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from res03db2@gte.net) Received: from evrtwa1-ar4-146-005.dsl.gtei.net (evrtwa1-ar4-146-005.dsl.gtei.net [4.34.146.5]) by smtppop1.gte.net with ESMTP ; id RAA3079013 Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:13:32 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 15:15:39 -0700 (PDT) From: The Clark Family X-Sender: res03db2@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net To: Artem Koutchine Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup tools/strategy In-Reply-To: <018701bfd883$17255060$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One of the BSD related websites had a feature about backing up to CDR. There are so many useful/fun things to do with a CDR/RW drive these days, that tape is less and less attractive all the time. I think the series of articles will feature the amanda package at some time. If someone else doesn't jump in with a pointer to the articles, let me know, and I'll go find out where I saw it. [RC] On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Artem Koutchine wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to select the right backup tool for backin up > my filesystem. As I understand i have a choice of > dump, tar, cpio. TAR and CPIO also need some sort > of external logic, wich will determine what file to > backup. > > Dump is good (accroding to what man says), but has > a very bad feature - i cannot browse the archive > visually (say, wich midnight commander) and i coould > not find a way to make it compress the files it backups. > > What i need is: > 1) A smart backupper which can do incremental backup > since given date and have a flexibale setup on what to > backup. I backup to another HDD and it is mounted > as a filesystem. at least the backupper need to skip the > backup filesystem itself > 2) A way to visually browse the backup archive and > restore seelcted files/directories > 3) The backupper MUST compress the backups (better > with gzip) > > My stategy is: 1 full backup every sunday morning, incremental > each day since the last incremental. I have 4GB system disk with > a lot of very important data and hosting clients and 17GB backup > disk. Backup drive is unmounted after the backup. > I also do media tests on the backup drive, industrial UPS installed > (invertor), so i am pretty sure that everything should be fine > > Any suggestions on the software or should i write it myself? > > Artem > matrix@chat.ru > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message