High Mobley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We have a large number of servers to backup at my company, and a low
> budget to do so. Our current tape changer is a 2/4 GB model, and our
> tape size is not big enough to accomodate our backups any more. It would
> be much cheaper for us to buy a couple of large hard drives to do
> backups on rather than a new tape changer and tapes. I have been unable
> to find a documented way to do this with Amanda. Can anybody tell me how
> to configure Amanda to backup to a hard drive instead of tape? Or
> perhaps someone has some better suggestion on how to accomplish our
> desired backups?
> Thanks,
> High Mobley
It is possible to use holding disk images for backups.
However I don't recommed this. I'd go ahead and split the disk list
entries into subdirectories until they are below 2 GB. You need to use
tar for this. Software compression can help, too. You can then buy
some more tapes and change tapes per run to the size of the tape
changer.
We'll need exact figures to say more. It looks like you use DAT
DDS2. It should be possible to go to DDS4 (20 GB uncompressed per
tape) by changing the tape drive only. In theory old tapes are still
usable.
Johannes Niess
P.S: Convincing the bosses to invest into backup hardware is easy: Let
them figure out what an hour of downtime for the whole company is
worth!
