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Date:      Tue, 30 Jan 1996 21:58:46 -0800 (PST)
From:      Brian Wang <brian@mail.vividnet.com>
To:        "Adam W. Dace" <thekind@NETural.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Stable Backup Solutions...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960130214912.29956C-100000@aquarius.vividnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960130154606.2446A-100000@stormbringer.netural.com>

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On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Adam W. Dace wrote:

> Hello everyone!
> 
> Just thought I'd toss this idea out and see what everyone thinks.  I'm 
> still relatively new to FreeBSD, and have checked about for a good backup 
> solution to backup our network here.
> 
> The only one I've found that I -like- is bru, and I -don't- like the cost.
> 
> dump seems rather old/icky/nasty/doesn't work, tar doesn't do 
> error-recovery well (so i've heard) and afio doesn't have a front-end.
> 
> So.
> 
> I'm thinking of writing what will hopefully be a small perl program, that 
> will use the wonderous features of find and afio to do 
> full/incremental/differental backups, hopefully across many machines 
						         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> (using ssh if I'm lucky).
> 
> Sys Admins, users, etc...what do you use?

	We use amanda to backup our network.  It is a client/server
backup/restore system based on dump (old/icky/nasty..but it works).  Try
it out, you might like it.  You can find it in FreeBSD ports/package.  Oh
BTW, there is a kerberos version that does encryption. 


Sincerely,

Brian



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