From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 12:32: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb2-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E8B737B423 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 12:32:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 18662 invoked by uid 0); 26 Aug 2000 19:32:03 -0000 Received: from dhcp-199-210.dsl.utexas.edu (HELO osilva-home.mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.199.210) by umbs-smtp-2 with SMTP; 26 Aug 2000 19:32:03 -0000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000826143222.00b31100@mail.utexas.edu> X-Sender: oscars@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 14:34:15 -0500 To: K H Tan From: Oscar Ricardo Silva Subject: Re: FBSD backup recommendation Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <39A7DB67.13F2F869@pop.jaring.my> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:59 PM 8/26/00 +0800, K H Tan, you wrote: >We have 7 F-BSD machines with SCSI interface. 4 of these have 18GB hard >disk, 2 having 36GB hard disk and 1 having 72 GB hard disk. > >Can anyone recommend me a solution for backup - preferably a central >backup solution? > >Thanks you. I would recommend getting either an AIT or a DLT8000 drive (either single drive or autoloader) and using the Amanda package (http://www.amanda.org). If you do want to try the package, get it from the web site, not the ports collection because the port version is old. Oscar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message