From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 10:08:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA21157 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:08:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (longstreet.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.25.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA21152 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:08:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from branson@localhost) by longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) id NAA28226; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 13:10:07 -0500 From: Branson Matheson Message-Id: <199601051810.NAA28226@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: Tar backup to another machine ? To: scott@statsci.com Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 13:10:06 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) In-Reply-To: <199601051640.IAA18236@block.statsci.com> from "Scott Blachowicz" at Jan 5, 96 08:40:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > You would probably be better off using the "Amanda" port in "packages" > > if your intent is to perform remote backups. Yes! > > Is it possible to use amanda to do backups without having a "work" > disk? Yes .. but it will be slow and dump things directly to tape. > > Also, is it possible for amanda to put multiple days' backups on the same > tape? I've got a 2.3Gb tape drive (Exabyte), but I don't have THAT much > stuff to backup. Or does it really need one tape per backup run? has to be one tape at this point. > > Or am I better off just cobbling together my own scripts to automate it? > Or should I RTFM better/more thoroughly? :-) I would use amanda. -branson -- ======================================================================== branson matheson | work: e.b.matheson@larc.nasa.gov CSC SysAdmin | http://longstreet.larc.nasa.gov/~branson (w) 804-864-9700 |all other: ebm@visi.net