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Hi all,

What's the best way to perform a backup, using one SCSI DAT
drive on a machine, to back up several linux networked machines?

I'm currently nfs-mounting the directories which i want to back
up onto the machine with the tape drive, and then tarring the
nfs mounted dirs onto tape.  But this is WAY too slow (it's written
about 450 mb in the past hour... I need to back up 4.7 gigs!).

Are there better ways to do this?  Thanks!

-tam

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  Tam> Hi all,

  Tam> What's the best way to perform a backup, using one SCSI DAT
  Tam> drive on a machine, to back up several linux networked
  Tam> machines?

Amanda.
http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/amanda/

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