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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