Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:23:14 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org Cc: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DDS-2/DDS-3 drives Message-ID: <199904122323.TAA09887@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Apr 1999 15:10:33 PDT." <199904122210.PAA28883@c2-sab.seanet.com> References: <199904122028.NAA97638@pau-amma.whistle.com> <199904122210.PAA28883@c2-sab.seanet.com>
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> David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> wrote: > > > Which is an excellent reason to make use of software such as "amanda", > > which will (if you let it) use disk space on the "backup server" as a > > big speed-matching buffer... and (not-so-coincidentally) also permit > > concurrent dumps from multiple filesystems. > > I don't suppose amanda has [duck and run!] MS Windoze clients, does > it? At the moment I'm trying to think of a reasonable way to get all > my systems backed up...the best I can think of is to install Samba and > a staging area disk on my FreeBSD box - then run some disk-to-disk > backup software on the Windoze boxes to copy files to the staging > area. Then back up with dump/tar/amanda/whatever from there. This is > a home network with (at the moment) 1 BSD box and 2 Windoze boxes. > > Any other suggestions? Install Samba, but use the smbclient program on the backup host to write a tar file of the remote Windows volume. Either do this directly to tape or a local file. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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