On Saturday 24 January 2004 11:41 am, Glenn English wrote: > On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 09:42, Alkis Evlogimenos wrote: > > On Saturday 24 January 2004 10:18 am, Andrej Kacian wrote: > > > (Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:10:09 -0600) > > > > > > And Alkis Evlogimenos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > What I have right now is a script running daily and backups > > > > everything (using cpio piped though gzip) except temp directories and > > > > media files. I also added > > > > > > > > some estimates on free space so that the earliest backup is removed > > > > if it is estimated that the remaining space is not enough. This way I > > > > maximize the number of previous daily backups. > > > > > > Approximately how much space does one daily backup use there? > > > > 7 gigs and it takes about 45 minutes to be created. > > I'm using amanda. A cron job runs it and sends me email about what > happened. Then I change the tape. > > I've been watching this thread, and Amanda seems an obvious solution. It > takes a little doing to get it set up, but hey, this is *nix. > > Is there a problem with Amanda that I don't know about?
Does Amanda support backing up on the same machine on a different mount? When I was reading about backup applications amanda seemed like an overkill. Also my network is wireless so backing up over it is not an option :-) -- Alkis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
