[Gllug] Large files

[Bruce Richardson]

On 9/21/01, 3:31:58 PM, Simon Stewart <sms at lateral.net> wrote regarding 
[Gllug] Large files:


> So, here I sit with a handy server designed for backups. Last night, I
> ran the backups across the network for every type of server that we
> have (to check that the thing worked as expected) And this is where
> the trouble begins.

> You see, the backups (which are simply compressed dumps of the
> filesystems) are impossible to play with:

What range of OSs do you run?  I can recommend Amanda as a backup 
solution. Very configurable, uses either dump or GNU tar at your 
discretion and with a command line browser that lets you examine (and 
restore from) your backup archive as if it were a filesystem.  All you 
need is to be able to run an amanda client on each host (It can backup 
smbfs mounts but not perfectly).

-- 

Bruce

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