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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Floppy-based tape drive questions. Message-ID: <id.XNCK1.KNF@nmti.com> Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva) Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI References: <kientzleD97Cru.3nw@netcom.com> <3q88su$jan@park.uvsc.edu> Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 18:26:34 GMT Lines: 25 In article <3q88su$jan@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote: > Peter will chime in here with "Amanda!", Who, me? Amanda is nice partly because it's built on top of dump, and the tapes it generates can be pretty easily hand-hacked into individual dumps with a minimum of fuss. You do need a rather larger tape than any partitions... I wouldn't try to back up even a middling-sized disk (500M, say) to a 250M tape with Amanda. > which is a rather full featured backup software system. It's mostly a comprehensive system. It's not well suited to making archival backups, or backups to small tape drives. > It's available for FTP. Peter will probably say where. 8-). University of Maryland. cs.umd.edu I think. -- Peter da Silva `-_-' Network Management Technology Incorporated 'U` 1601 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?"