From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 4 21:14:15 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98CD237B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:14:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from sleepy.wojomedia.com (sleepy.wojomedia.com [216.107.102.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0B5943EC5 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 21:14:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tim@sleepy.wojomedia.com) Received: (qmail 2798 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Jan 2003 05:14:02 -0000 Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 23:14:02 -0600 From: Tim To: Brad Knowles Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup Solutions Message-ID: <20030105051402.GA2710@sleepy.wojomedia.com> References: <3E0DC536.8010001@slaudiovis.org> <3E0EBC49.86AD7E28@mindspring.com> <3E0FF119.7792A270@mindspring.com> <20030101124419.GA14165@sleepy.wojomedia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 08:21:49PM -0600, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 6:44 AM -0600 2003/01/01, Tim wrote: > > >> IIRC, Amanda doesn't support stackers or libraries. Are there > >> any other tools that do? > > > > Amanda supports stackers and libraries just fine. > > In what way? How does it keep a library of what tape is used for > what content? RTFM at www.amanda.org. > How does it keep track of how many times a particular > tape has been used, so that you know when it should be retired? This has nothing to do stackers and libraries. Even if you have a single drive, you might want this ability anyway. I don't recall off the top of my head whether Amanda does this - it's certainly trivial to add a small script to look at the tape usage everyday and make this computation, if Amanda doesn't do this already. > How > does it deal with mixing on-site and off-site backups, perhaps in a > G-F-S scheme? Once again, this has nothing to do with stackers and libraries, which was your original question. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message