From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 5 08:36:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA08930 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 08:36:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from vdp01.vailsystems.com (root@vdp01.vailsystems.com [207.152.98.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA08925 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 08:36:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from crocodile.vale.com (crocodile [204.117.217.147]) by vdp01.vailsystems.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA25773; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 10:36:46 -0600 (CST) Received: from jaguar (jaguar.vale.com [204.117.217.146]) by crocodile.vale.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA18662; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 10:36:26 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <327F6D1F.351@vailsys.com> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 10:36:47 -0600 From: Hal Snyder Reply-To: hal@vailsys.com Organization: Vail Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Chalmers CC: bsd Subject: Re: postgres also amanda [q] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Robert Chalmers wrote: > Just wondering, how does amanda work. Does it send files to another > system for backup, or does it take files from another system to be backed up? Amanda has both client and server sides. It can do dump or tar on a client, then sends the bits over a dedicated UDP port to the server which has the tape drive. See http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~blair/amandaBackups.html