From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 23:20:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA03181 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 23:20:09 -0800 Received: from cc.jyu.fi (root@cc.jyu.fi [130.234.1.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA03138 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 23:19:59 -0800 Received: from [130.234.41.39] (zaphod.maccc.jyu.fi) by cc.jyu.fi with SMTP id AA02324 (5.67a/IDA-1.4.4 for questions@freebsd.org); Thu, 30 Nov 1995 09:23:49 +0200 X-Sender: kallio@pop.jyu.fi Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 09:21:18 +0300 To: Paul Traina , questions@freebsd.org From: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Subject: Re: how do *YOU* do backups? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk At 11:21 29/11/95, Paul Traina wrote: >I scrogged my root partition the other day, and while it was pretty easy for >me to recover it, I had the opportunity to reflect on the fact that I haven't >been doing proper backups...so I went out and picked up a 2g tape drive. > >What I'm curious about is how people are chosing to do backups these days. >I'm an old BSD fossil, We are using some commercial package + NFS We have been lookin amanda. It is based to (r)dump. Dump did not work on 2.0.5 with 4G partitions, so we could not use. (Is it fixed in 2.1?) Seppo -- +-- Seppo Kallio ----- kallio@jyu.fi ---+ ! Computing Center ! Fax +358-41-603611 Phone +358-41-603606 ! ! University of Jyvaskyla ! http://www.jyu.fi/~kallio ! +-- Finland --+-- 62.14N 25.44E -- +