From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 16 18:36:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA13353 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 18:36:11 -0700 Received: from mvmampc66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de (ig25@mvmampc66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.110.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA13347 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 1995 18:36:07 -0700 Received: (from ig25@localhost) by mvmampc66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id DAA04324; Sun, 17 Sep 1995 03:36:30 +0200 Message-Id: <199509170136.DAA04324@mvmampc66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de> Subject: FreeBSD box for backing up WfWG boxes? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 03:36:29 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: torstenb@freebsd.first.gmd.de (b-bird) From: Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thomas_K=F6nig?=) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME7a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 856 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I'm currently considering how to back up around 20-30 WfWG boxes. I could get at the data using Samba, the free SMB over TCP client. However, the only free backup system I'm aware of, Amanda, only supports getting the data in question with dump, which can only back up a local hard drive (even though it can send the data somewhere remotely via rmt). However, it depends on having UNIX running where your data is. The hardware is a PC box with an attached SCSI DAT drive. If I can't get this to work using a free UNIX variant, the only workable alternative would be WNT . Any ideas how to tackle this? Surely, somebody must have come across this problem earlier... -- Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet. The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.