Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 10:40:15 -0800 From: gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com To: scott@statsci.com Cc: Branson Matheson <branson@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Tar backup to another machine ? Message-ID: <24034.820867215@westhill.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jan 1996 10:25:24 PST." <199601051825.KAA19589@block.statsci.com>
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Scott Blachowicz wrote in message ID <199601051825.KAA19589@block.statsci.com>: > 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. If you get the source and look at the docs, it has an example of how to do it. Sorry, I can't remember offhand. It's ages since I touched our local Amanda setup. If it works, don't touch it :-) > > > 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. No can do. It keeps track of which tapes it can write to through a label scheme :-( Gary
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