Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 13:10:06 -0500 (EST) From: Branson Matheson <branson@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> To: scott@statsci.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Tar backup to another machine ? Message-ID: <199601051810.NAA28226@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199601051640.IAA18236@block.statsci.com> from "Scott Blachowicz" at Jan 5, 96 08:40:58 am
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> > > You would probably be better off using the "Amanda" port in "packages" > > if your intent is to perform remote backups. Yes! > > 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. > > 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. > > Or am I better off just cobbling together my own scripts to automate it? > Or should I RTFM better/more thoroughly? :-) I would use amanda. -branson -- ======================================================================== branson matheson | work: e.b.matheson@larc.nasa.gov CSC SysAdmin | http://longstreet.larc.nasa.gov/~branson (w) 804-864-9700 |all other: ebm@visi.net
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