From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 14:47:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA16063 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 14:47:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (root@orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA16052 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 14:47:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA21885; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 17:46:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.webspan.net: Host gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Brett Glass cc: dgy@rtd.com, questions@freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Best remote backup method? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Aug 1996 09:39:35 MDT." <199608081539.JAA21319@lariat.lariat.org> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 17:46:45 -0400 Message-ID: <21881.839540805@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brett Glass wrote in message ID <199608081539.JAA21319@lariat.lariat.org>: > AMANDA appears to insist on doing dumps to tape. Is there something that > will do a quick copy to a disk? Not really. You can force it to do a dump to the holding disk just by not putting a tape in, but I'm not sure how you could then use amanda to restore that properly. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info