From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 23 13:05:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA23842 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:05:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA23835 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:05:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA03235; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:05:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:05:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ron Rosson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggested Backup In-Reply-To: <19971021121051.58696@the.oneinsane.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Ron Rosson wrote: > Looking for the least expensive way to back up my 3.5G FreeBSD > system. Hard drives are out since the system exist o 3 IDE HD's > and one IDE cdrom. Dont mind adding scsi for tape or what ever is > suggested but an curious what is better and used more in the UNIX > community. The system is a server and router for 4 Win95 boxes > and maybe with some tweaking from rumba and a good backup script > I could back up the whole network. Any suggestions and guidance > are welcome and appreciated.. If have any pointers to site with > the hardware suggested please post that as well. SCSI & a DAT tape is the way to go for the hardware side, amanda for the software. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major