>Does anyone know if that puppy is supported by amanda ?
If it's SCSI, Amanda can do it (or it should be able to so we'll make it).
>Does anyone have any recommendations for backing up this amound of data ?
Just a couple of general theories:
* Make sure no one "disk" (disklist entry) gets out of line.
Ignoring the tape overflow issue, it would still be a bad thing
to have 1.9 TBytes of your 2.0 TBytes in one file system. The day
Amanda decides to do that full dump during the dumpcycle is going
to be bad every time it rolls around (we have one config like that
here and it's a nuisance).
* Extend your dumpcycle so Amanda can spread the full dumps out.
Yes, that means more tapes.
* Run in parallel (yes, more drives and more tapes). We backup up
well over 2 TBytes and this (plus a 28 day dumpcycle) is how we
survive.
If you don't have enough clients (i.e. they are silly enough to put
the whole 2 TBytes on a single server), I have a minor patch to let
more than one amandad run at a time so you can have multiple tape
servers working at the same time.
* Do the math :-). You're familiar with Amanda and know how it behaves.
Write up some scenarios for splitting up the data and do rough
estimates of the timing. Then play with the variables (dumpcycle,
holding disk space, number of configs, drive speed, etc).
> Gerhard
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
