From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 4: 8:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from plab.ku.dk (plab.ku.dk [130.225.105.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C6137B404 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 04:08:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by plab.ku.dk (8.11.3/8.9.3) id g0HC84x37209 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.AVP; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:08:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from dmitry@karasik.eu.org) Received: from raven.plab.ku.dk (raven.plab.ku.dk [130.225.105.67]) by plab.ku.dk (8.11.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g0HC84q37201 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:08:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from dmitry@karasik.eu.org) In-Reply-To: Chris Shenton's message of "16 Jan 2002 12:20:13 -0500" Subject: Re: BACKUP SOFTWARE FOR FREEBSD Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <3C4426F0.13993.6C4354@localhost> <871ygqtdpu.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Dmitry Karasik Keywords: 2001334874 X-Comment-To: Chris Shenton Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Lines: 26 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: 17 Jan 2002 13:07:59 +0100 X-Mailer: Mail::Mailer[v1.40] Net::SMTP[v2.17] Message-Id: 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 Hi Chris! On 16 Jan 02 at 12:20, "Chris" (Chris Shenton) wrote: Chris> I've been *very* happy with Amanda, in the ports collection. I Chris> have it backup a few of my home boxes (FreeBSD, Solaris, Sunos) to Chris> a 4-tape jukebox I picked up cheap. Runs every night. Schedules Chris> which partitions to do and what dump levels based on priorities you Chris> assign to each, in case they won't all fit on one tape. Chris> www.amanda.org Once I considered using amanda, and there was one thing not that clear. It seems that it is unable to cope with dumps, greater than one tape. Well, it's not freebsd headache, but how do you guys write backups to this HP DLT 40 that uses 20G tapes from modern systems with 100+GB disks? My impression that these two 'options' are mutually exclusive, but maybe there's someone who succeed? Anyone? -- Sincerely, Dmitry --- www.karasik.eu.org --- Life ain't fair, but the root password helps. - BOFH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message