From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 11 22:09:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA02722 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 22:09:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from po9.andrew.cmu.edu (PO9.ANDREW.CMU.EDU [128.2.10.109]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA02713 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 22:08:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from postman@localhost) by po9.andrew.cmu.edu (8.7.4/8.7.3) id BAA22183 for freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 01:08:54 -0500 Received: via switchmail; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 01:08:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from unix22.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 01:07:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from unix22.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 01:06:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from mms.4.60.Jan.26.1995.18.43.47.sun4c.411.EzMail.2.0.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.unix22.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4c.411 via MS.5.6.unix22.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4c_411; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 01:06:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 01:06:50 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew Jason White To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Backup Strategies Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I'm looking into backup strategies for my two 1.0GB disks onto an Exabyte 8200 (2.3GB) using either dump or amanda. At the moment, I'm basically stuck. I'd like to do a cyclic dump (level 0 every month, level 1 every week, and the hanoi pattern during the week), but dump seems to only like to dump one file system at a time. I can't be around to change tapes for each of my file systems, so this really won't work. The other option seems to use amanda. That of course has the nice restore features, and will allow multiple filesystems to go onto a tape, but I can't seem to figure out how to get it to cycle as I described above without using an obscene number of tapes. Thoughts? Suggestions? Am I just completely misreading the man pages? -Matt ----- Matt White Email: mwhite+@cmu.edu http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/mwhite/www/ Visit on or before Friday March 15th to become a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the Communications Decency Act. Include this paragraph as a meme virus in your .sig until then.