> Hello all. I've been using amanda to do all our backups for more than a
> year now and love it. I'm writing to hear what the list has to say about
> using amanda to backup a significant amount of data via an NFS mount.
>
> Background: I'm looking at deploying a SNAP! server or other such NAS
> device for internal network drive use. I would have roughly 100GB of
> data mounted to one of my Linux boxen via NFS off the snap server. I
> imagine that the incrementals would only be grabbing a few hundered
> megs, but obviously level0 backup of 100+G is significant!
I've done something similar for several months (NetApp Filer) via NFS
and GNU tar to split up the hundreds of GB into nice little chunks.
The performance was ok. In best cases, I got something around 7 MB/s.
