From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 10:17:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA21517 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:17:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA21510 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:17:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA02418; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 11:15:24 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601051815.LAA02418@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Tar backup to another machine ? To: scott@statsci.com Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 11:15:23 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, wjh@bhoss.ifx.net, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601051640.IAA18236@block.statsci.com> from "Scott Blachowicz" at Jan 5, 96 08:40:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > You would probably be better off using the "Amanda" port in "packages" > > if your intent is to perform remote backups. > > Is it possible to use amanda to do backups without having a "work" disk? > At one point, I was fiddling with using it to manage backups on my home > system, but I just want it to manage the dumps. I don't need it to > parallelize anything or buffer anything (nor do I have the free disk space > to allow it to). > > Also, is it possible for amanda to put multiple days' backups on the same > tape? I've got a 2.3Gb tape drive (Exabyte), but I don't have THAT much > stuff to backup. Or does it really need one tape per backup run? > > Or am I better off just cobbling together my own scripts to automate it? > Or should I RTFM better/more thoroughly? :-) Er. I have to admit to using rdump. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.