From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 10: 1:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 420D337B411 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:01:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D143743ECF for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:01:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk ([IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g77H1AFo060340; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 18:01:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g77H15Vh060339; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 18:01:05 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 18:01:05 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Michael Grant Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk based backup s/w Message-ID: <20020807170104.GA34859@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <200208071527.g77FRAP21414@splat.grant.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200208071527.g77FRAP21414@splat.grant.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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, Aug 07, 2002 at 05:27:11PM +0200, Michael Grant wrote: > I'm looking for something to backup my files to a spare disk. But not > just something like dump/restore that globs all the files into one > large file (a virtual tape). And not just a cpdup to the spare disk > either. > > I'd like to find something that's a bit more intelligent, something > which lets me easily get at older versions of files or restore an > entire file system. Something which doesn't store multiple copies of > the same file and which uses compression and maybe even encryption. Take a look at amanda "The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver" http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda/ which does pretty much everything you want. It's in ports as misc/amanda-server and misc/amanda-client. Although it's primarily intended for backup to tape, you can usually persuade tape backup systems to backup to disk files instead. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Tel: +44 1628 476614 Marlow Fax: +44 0870 0522645 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message