Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 21:58:46 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Wang <brian@mail.vividnet.com> To: "Adam W. Dace" <thekind@NETural.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stable Backup Solutions... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960130214912.29956C-100000@aquarius.vividnet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960130154606.2446A-100000@stormbringer.netural.com>
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On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Adam W. Dace wrote: > Hello everyone! > > Just thought I'd toss this idea out and see what everyone thinks. I'm > still relatively new to FreeBSD, and have checked about for a good backup > solution to backup our network here. > > The only one I've found that I -like- is bru, and I -don't- like the cost. > > dump seems rather old/icky/nasty/doesn't work, tar doesn't do > error-recovery well (so i've heard) and afio doesn't have a front-end. > > So. > > I'm thinking of writing what will hopefully be a small perl program, that > will use the wonderous features of find and afio to do > full/incremental/differental backups, hopefully across many machines ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > (using ssh if I'm lucky). > > Sys Admins, users, etc...what do you use? We use amanda to backup our network. It is a client/server backup/restore system based on dump (old/icky/nasty..but it works). Try it out, you might like it. You can find it in FreeBSD ports/package. Oh BTW, there is a kerberos version that does encryption. Sincerely, Brian
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