From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 16 18:30:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet03.citec.qld.gov.au (inet03.citec.qld.gov.au [203.5.10.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F9314E13 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 18:30:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgcccdc@citec.qld.gov.au) Received: by inet03.citec.qld.gov.au; id MAA15418; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:30:30 +1000 (EST) Received: from guru.citec.qld.gov.au( 147.132.20.47) by inet03.citec.qld.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma013726; Wed, 17 Nov 99 12:29:05 +1000 Received: from localhost (sgcccdc@localhost) by guru.citec.qld.gov.au (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA04567 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:29:34 +1000 X-Authentication-Warning: guru.citec.qld.gov.au: sgcccdc owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:29:34 +1000 (EST) From: Colin Campbell To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup several hosts with dump In-Reply-To: <80t1ed$1bvb$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Coming ompletely out of left field here ... Why not use NFS? You just mount the filesystems read only on the machine with the tape drive and do the backups with (as I've just realised :-) something other than dump. This could also make restores easier, maybe, perhaps, possibly, ... Colin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message