From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 10:25:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA21831 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:25:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [198.145.127.110]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA21826 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:25:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from block.statsci.com by main.statsci.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tYGpR-000r3tC; Fri, 5 Jan 96 10:25 PST Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by block.statsci.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA19589; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:25:25 -0800 Message-Id: <199601051825.KAA19589@block.statsci.com> To: Branson Matheson cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Tar backup to another machine ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jan 1996 13:10:06 -0500." <199601051810.NAA28226@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 10:25:24 -0800 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Branson Matheson wrote: > > Is it possible to use amanda to do backups without having a "work" > > disk? > > Yes .. but it will be slow and dump things directly to tape. Hmmm...I thought I'd tried the obvious things...maybe I'll have to go try again. > > 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? > > has to be one tape at this point. Oh well...sometimes I'd like to be able to just leave a tape in the drive and let it just append to the tape. > I would use amanda. I'll have to revisit that... Thanx, Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc. 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org