Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 10:25:24 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: Branson Matheson <branson@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Tar backup to another machine ? Message-ID: <199601051825.KAA19589@block.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jan 1996 13:10:06 -0500." <199601051810.NAA28226@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov>
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Branson Matheson <branson@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> > 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.
Hmmm...I thought I'd tried the obvious things...maybe I'll have to go try
again.
> > 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.
Oh well...sometimes I'd like to be able to just leave a tape in the drive
and let it just append to the tape.
> I would use amanda.
I'll have to revisit that...
Thanx,
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc.
1700 Westlake Ave N #500
scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109
Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
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