From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Dec 16 12:58:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA10183 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 12:58:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.kersur.net (mail.kersur.net [199.79.199.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA10172 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 12:58:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from druber@mail.kersur.net) Received: from localhost (druber@localhost) by mail.kersur.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA05405; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:58:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:58:07 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Swartzendruber To: Ingrid Kast Fuller cc: FreeBSD ISP Mailing List Subject: Re: Backup server In-Reply-To: <36781478.1DCBA5FB@cityscope.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Ingrid Kast Fuller wrote: > Wondering what would be the best method to backup a server on the same > network that doesn't have it's own tape drive? I'd like to use some cron > job to either move a particular directory (a couple small data > directories) to another server and then just let it's tape drive do it's > backup. Or possibly have the tape backup (dump script) pull the data > across and append to the end. Run amanda. It's a little more work to set up, but it's worth it. Look at www.amanda.org. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message