From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 14 18:35:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15B6F1508B for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 18:35:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de!naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mips.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id DAA09312 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 03:35:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de!naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: by mips.rhein-neckar.de id m11R1iF-000WyXC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Wed, 15 Sep 1999 01:10:11 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Tape backups Date: 15 Sep 1999 01:13:18 +0200 Message-ID: <7rmkqe$7o5$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <4.1.19990914142612.0094da30@unix01.voicenet.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John wrote: > My boss hit me with this question, and I'm not sure of the answer. We are > looking at buying 5 new servers, all of which will be configured (my > byself.... *gulp*) to run FBSD. In an effort to save $$$, he wants to omit > tape drives from each server, and instead get one server with a > tape-changer in it. Very reasonable. Make sure the tape changer works with FreeBSD. I have no experience in this area, but I'd be wary of solutions requiring proprietary drivers etc. > I'm assuming that this will be possible to do using dumps over > NFS, however I was hoping for some confirmation from someone with > more experience in this? You can't do dumps over NFS. Instead, you run the dump locally and sent its output over the net. In fact, dump itself supports writing to user@host:device. Otherwise you can dump to standard output, pipe into rsh, and continue from there. The same for restore, just in reverse. Also, if you backup a small group of hosts on a central server, you might want to look into Amanda (ports/misc/amanda24), which very nicely helps to automate this kind of thing--including support for tape changers. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message