Re: OT: Re: backup systems for OpenBSD

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd_(_at_)_2003_(_dot_)_snew_(_dot_)_com>]

Quoting Chris Hedemark (chris_(_at_)_yonderway_(_dot_)_com):
> On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 12:16 PM, Ian Prowell wrote:
> 
> >If you have not closed on a piece of backup software one that is worth 
> >looking
> >at is Amanda.  It is included in ports.  I have used it for 3+ years 
> >on OpenBSD,
> >Linux, and HP-UX with great results.
> 
> Does Amanda still not handle libraries/multi-tape backups?

I used it with a 12 tape changer in 1994 or so and it was old
news then.  Unix cli commands managed it, afair.

You have, of course, done
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/amanda;make extract

then gone done into the work area to persude their docs.

And Evi Nemeth (et al)'s book System Admin handbook used
to have a blurb on AMANDA; likely still does.

Lets me back up from multiple machines to multiple
machines with tapes.  Uses unix commands to do the backup
(dump, tar, $YourHomemadeProgram, whatever).

What was really nice then was that I managed to justify getting
a HUGE 2 GB disk (for the time) so that I could haul the data
across the net to a spool disk and THEN move it to tape, limiting
the time it took that I wanted, say, a database frozen for backup.

Try it, it tastes good.