From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:36:10 +1100 Subject: [TUHS] Backup software (was: Irwin 285) In-Reply-To: <20100121204449.92D7640E8@lod.com> References: <20100121203655.GH25687@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20100121204449.92D7640E8@lod.com> Message-ID: <20100122003610.GB3623@dereel.lemis.com> On Thursday, 21 January 2010 at 12:44:49 -0800, Corey Lindsly wrote: > >> Sure. I know. Big SATA drives are cheap over here as well, like >> 1.5T for 110 EURO or somesuch. I just happen to own a LTO3 and >> enough tapes already, so the economics are not the issue. Just need >> to have a proper piece of open source backup software that runs on >> FreeBSD. > > And what, precisely, is the problem with using dump? > It will span multiple tapes. dump is non-portable. In general, you can only restore to the same kind of system as you write to. Greg -- Finger grog at FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 195 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs