From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 10:40:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA22656 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:40:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from westhill.cdrom.com (westhill.cdrom.com [192.216.223.138]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA22651 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:40:27 -0800 (PST) From: gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by westhill.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA24036 ; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:40:16 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: westhill.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: scott@statsci.com cc: Branson Matheson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Tar backup to another machine ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jan 1996 10:25:24 PST." <199601051825.KAA19589@block.statsci.com> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 10:40:15 -0800 Message-ID: <24034.820867215@westhill.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Scott Blachowicz wrote in message ID <199601051825.KAA19589@block.statsci.com>: > 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. If you get the source and look at the docs, it has an example of how to do it. Sorry, I can't remember offhand. It's ages since I touched our local Amanda setup. If it works, don't touch it :-) > > > 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. No can do. It keeps track of which tapes it can write to through a label scheme :-( Gary