From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 10: 5:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.ie-online.it (dns.ie-online.it [194.133.148.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B08AA14C18 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:05:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from dns.ie-interna.it (host-ie-trezzano.ie-online.it [194.133.148.44]) by dns.ie-online.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA06593 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 19:04:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from stefano (stefano.ie-interna.it [192.168.0.33]) by dns.ie-interna.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA08475 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 19:04:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991018190459.00b00890@relay.alice.it> X-Sender: riva@relay.alice.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 19:04:59 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Stefano Riva Subject: Re: Network backup solution Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. --- Stefano Riva Systems & Network Administrator Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl Voice +39-02283151, Fax +39-0228315900 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message