From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 10 09:35:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA06740 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:35:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gloria.cord.edu (nrahlstr@gloria.cord.edu [138.129.254.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA06659 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:34:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrahlstr@gloria.cord.edu) Received: from localhost (nrahlstr@localhost) by gloria.cord.edu (8.8.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id LAA00411; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:34:00 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:34:00 -0600 (CST) From: Nathan Ahlstrom To: Mike Smith cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large system backups; recommendations for devices & strategies? In-Reply-To: <199802100356.TAA06845@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm looking for recommendations for both backup devices and backup > strategies for a network of about six systems and perhaps 50GB of > data. Ultimately, I'd like something that can run more or less > unattended, modulo media changes, etc. (ie. I expect using Amanda or > similar.) I have been running my college's backups using amanda on 6 BSDi machines and 1 exabyte tape drive...it has been working quite well. Toss in a few scripts to automate some things and it runs more or less unattended. > I'd be interested in hearing from anyone that's been involved in > setting up and/or operating such a backup system, as well as perhaps > being interested in doing something similar for the FreeBSD project. Amanda is fairly easy to setup and run. I would definitely be willing to help out in any way possible. Thanks, Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@cord.edu http://www.cord.edu/homepages/nrahlstr/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message