Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 11:57:48 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> Cc: Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.homeunix.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backing up my CDs [was Re: My horror story] Message-ID: <20020510115748.A18296@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20020510111431.S40234-100000@pogo.caustic.org>; from jan@caustic.org on Fri, May 10, 2002 at 11:22:23AM -0700 References: <20020510140416.C16272-100000@mrami.homeunix.org> <20020510111431.S40234-100000@pogo.caustic.org>
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--2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 11:22:23AM -0700, f.johan.beisser wrote: > the other thing to remember is that backups are very time consuming, and > very tedious to do often, or well. Simply spending an hour or two setting up a decient piece of backup software like amanda[0] make this statement rather inaccurate. I do backups every weekday night on my home office network with a bit more then two weeks per cycle. The total work required is to turn around in my chair once each morning and move a tape. My disks are currently small enough that I can use DDS3 tapes, but I expect I'll have to move to VXA or similar in a few years. -- Brooks [0] Most people seem to think amanda is the massivly complicated backup system that is only useful for dozens of machines, but it's actually quite easy to set up. The server takes a little time to set up, but the clients require installing one small port, creating a single file on the host (there might be a way around that), and adding lines for each disk to the server's config file. I recommend amanda on any network with more then one machine on it. --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE83BgrXY6L6fI4GtQRAo7lAJ4jB+LjLuusb6RafH5zDlyLpHYblACgjMO0 a1pDpcNO+KolH28vP6T2oLw= =v8xT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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