Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:28:50 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: mwhite+@CMU.EDU (Matthew Jason White) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Backup Strategies Message-ID: <199603121828.KAA03929@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <klFFFu_00YUy4ULEU8@andrew.cmu.edu> from "Matthew Jason White" at Mar 12, 96 01:06:50 am
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Matthew Jason White wrote: > > Hello, I'm looking into backup strategies for my two 1.0GB disks onto an Exabyte 8200 (2.3GB) using either dump or amanda. > > At the moment, I'm basically stuck. I'd like to do a cyclic dump (level > 0 every month, level 1 every week, and the hanoi pattern during the why bother? your tape should hold the contents of both disks so do a level 0 every night. safer. > week), but dump seems to only like to dump one file system at a time. I > can't be around to change tapes for each of my file systems, so this > really won't work. dump every filesystem but the last to the no-rewind device (eg /dev/nrst0). the dumps will be written to the tape in sequence. use restore with the '-s' flag to get the dump that you need back from the tape (note: '-s' uses fortran sytle numbering, counting from 1 not 0) > > The other option seems to use amanda. That of course has the nice > restore features, and will allow multiple filesystems to go onto a tape, > but I can't seem to figure out how to get it to cycle as I described > above without using an obscene number of tapes. dont bother, let amanda do a level 0 every night, or whatever it wants. just tell it how many tapes you have in the cycle and how many days in the cycle (days MUST be less than tapes)
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