Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:30:51 -0700 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Jim Freeze <jfreeze@freebsdportal.com> Cc: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org>, aran80@wintersperu.com.pe, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BACKUP SOFTWARE FOR FREEBSD Message-ID: <200201170330.g0H3Up887475@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <20020116132818.A93775@freebsdportal.com>
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:28:18 -0500 Jim Freeze wrote:
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| On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:20:13PM -0500, Chris Shenton wrote:
| > "Alvaro Rosales R." <aran80@wintersperu.com.pe> writes:
| >
| > I've been *very* happy with Amanda, in the ports collection. I have
| > it backup a few of my home boxes (FreeBSD, Solaris, Sunos) to a 4-tape
| > jukebox I picked up cheap. Runs every night. Schedules which
|
| Does anyone know if an internal Ditto drive (IDE) can be used
| for backup? Would Amanda work for this drive?
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Amanda is comparable in scope to say a Legato, BudTool or Veritas
style backup server. Designed for managing lots of tapes, lots of
drives, lots of systems and lots of disks. In my opinion it is
overkill for single system, or even two or three systems for disaster
recovery backups.
Here is my /root/bin/backup script
#!/bin/sh
#
# backup
#
dumpbase=/disk/1/dumps
exec >> $dumpbase/dump.output 2>&1
dump -ua${1}f $dumpbase/slash.dump.$1 /
dump -ua${1}f $dumpbase/usr.dump.$1 /usr
dump -ua${1}f $dumpbase/var.dump.$1 /var
dump -ua${1}f $dumpbase/home.dump.$1 /home
echo
echo "========================================"
echo
It writes to a spare hard disk that is allocated for the purpose.
The FreeBSD periodic(8) system runs the script /etc/daily.local
which contains the line '/root/bin/backup 1' and /etc/weekly.local
contains the line '/root/bin/backup 0'.
If your hard drive partitions are small enough then the Ditto drive
might be a reasonable choice. Removables might be useful if you
need off site backups too.
Good Luck
--
Chris Fedde
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