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Date:      Mon, 18 Oct 1999 19:04:59 +0200
From:      Stefano Riva <sriva@alice.it>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Network backup solution
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19991018190459.00b00890@relay.alice.it>

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At 17.59 18/10/99 +0200, you wrote:
>I need to backup my FreeBSD 3.2-R server from a Linux box.  The linux box is
>fitted with a HP tape drive and our budget doesn't allow us to take the easy
>way out and just buy another tape drive when I know for sure that there
>should be a way to backup over the network.
>What do I need to do to be able to do this?  Any suggestions?

  You have many possibilities. You could simply mount the BSD box's
filesystems with NFS on the Linux box, then doing the backup as usual. You
could use a backup package like Amanda. You could use remote dump if Linux
doesn't have problems with rmt; "man dump" for details (option -f). Just
some suggestions.

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  Stefano Riva
  Systems & Network Administrator
  Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl
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