[wplug] Amanda backup increment

[Poyner, Brandon]

Even better, use rsync with ssh as the network transport.  

The great Linux leader has declared dump to be a dead end.  I'd still
recommend dump for *BSD, but on Linux systems you probably should stick
with tar. http://old.lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer II
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran at potentialtech.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 11:44 AM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] Amanda backup increment


Wise, Jeremey wrote:
> Is their anyone out their using Amanda. Their site is not the best. I
did an
> installed amanda-2.4.2p2-7.i386.rpm and it lacks any man pages. The
customer
> wants to do appends to a single LTO tape drive for ~300MB file. They
want to
> do this continually until the tape is full +one a month full system
backup.
> Offsite is provided by scp copy script for the ~300MB tar/gziped file.

Not a _direct_ answer to your question, but some alternatives.

Consider rsync as a replacement for scp: less bandwidth.

dump can do what you want, but you'll need to write some sort of script
to
manage it.  I don't know of anything pre-built out there.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com

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