Re: Backup solutions for NetBSD?

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 14 April 2010 02:19, Greg A. Woods <woods%planix.ca@localhost> wrote:
> At Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:26:12 -0500, "John Palmer" 
> <jpalmer%american-webmasters.net@localhost> wrote:
> Subject: Backup solutions for NetBSD?
>>
>> Anyone know of a good backup appliance that is compatible with NetBSD/Unix 
>> dump?
>>
>> I'm not sure that the Barracuda backup solution supports UNIX dump from the 
>> client side.
>
> Any appliance that supports NFS can be used with rdiff-backup (in pkgsrc).
>
> Indeed some appliances even support SSH and presumably could support at
> least rsync, if not also rdiff-backup.
>
> I haven't used dump(8) since I got too much dirt in my Exabyte tape
> drive nearly a decade ago. Â(at the time I used Amanda with it, using
> dump as the underlying mechanism)

I've also found dirvish invaluable for backing up a variety of NetBSD
based hosts (from pkgsrc)