From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 19:31:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1948E37B416 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:31:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g0H3Up887475; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:30:52 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200201170330.g0H3Up887475@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Jim Freeze Cc: Chris Shenton , aran80@wintersperu.com.pe, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BACKUP SOFTWARE FOR FREEBSD In-Reply-To: <20020116132818.A93775@freebsdportal.com> From: Chris Fedde Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:30:51 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:28:18 -0500 Jim Freeze wrote: +------------------ | On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:20:13PM -0500, Chris Shenton wrote: | > "Alvaro Rosales R." writes: | > | > I've been *very* happy with Amanda, in the ports collection. I have | > it backup a few of my home boxes (FreeBSD, Solaris, Sunos) to a 4-tape | > jukebox I picked up cheap. Runs every night. Schedules which | | Does anyone know if an internal Ditto drive (IDE) can be used | for backup? Would Amanda work for this drive? +------------------ Amanda is comparable in scope to say a Legato, BudTool or Veritas style backup server. Designed for managing lots of tapes, lots of drives, lots of systems and lots of disks. In my opinion it is overkill for single system, or even two or three systems for disaster recovery backups. Here is my /root/bin/backup script #!/bin/sh # # backup # dumpbase=/disk/1/dumps exec >> $dumpbase/dump.output 2>&1 dump -ua${1}f $dumpbase/slash.dump.$1 / dump -ua${1}f $dumpbase/usr.dump.$1 /usr dump -ua${1}f $dumpbase/var.dump.$1 /var dump -ua${1}f $dumpbase/home.dump.$1 /home echo echo "========================================" echo It writes to a spare hard disk that is allocated for the purpose. The FreeBSD periodic(8) system runs the script /etc/daily.local which contains the line '/root/bin/backup 1' and /etc/weekly.local contains the line '/root/bin/backup 0'. If your hard drive partitions are small enough then the Ditto drive might be a reasonable choice. Removables might be useful if you need off site backups too. Good Luck -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message