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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!palmer.demon.co.uk!palmer.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Backing up the whole 9 yards...??? Date: 20 Aug 1995 00:21:21 +0100 Organization: none Lines: 25 Message-ID: <415rlh$na@palmer.demon.co.uk> References: <DDHIzE.25r@agora.rdrop.com> <41198g$mb@gate.sinica.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc.my.org X-NNTP-Posting-Host: palmer.demon.co.uk In article <41198g$mb@gate.sinica.edu.tw>, Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> wrote: > I've got AMANDA compiled and installed here, but I haven't gone >through the man pages yet to figure out exactly what it does. It >looks like it can handle everything short of labelling your tapes and >mailing them off to a safety deposit box at the local bank. ;-) It's >in the FreeBSD ports collection. Yep. It's pretty nice. It's used to backup cdrom.com's systems every night now. The only problem is I'm not sure if it'll work properly on active filesystems (like /var on freefall, or even /a on freefall where people's home dirs are). AMANDA uses `dump' to get the FS image, which normally likes the filesystem to be quiescent (or at least I've been told it does). Anyone know how well FreeBSD's dump command handles active (or hyperactive :-) ) filesystems? Thanks Gary -- FreeBSD Core Member E-Mail: Gary@Palmer.Demon.co.uk, gpalmer@FreeBSD.org