Hi! I would like to start using Amanda to back up a small LAN I have, consisting mainly of Solaris 2.6 machines (+ 1 NT box, although that can wait, and 1 RedHat 7 box). The machine that I intend to use as a host is an older SPARCstation 2, which has two tape drives attached -- a DDS3 drive and an older EXAbyte drive. I understand that the tapes that I use, since Amanda can't use both drives, need to be able to handle a level 0 dump from any of the machines. What I'm wondering is, does the level 0 dump have to be unbroken across the entire machine, or does Amanda schedule by partitions?
That is, most of the machines use have somewhere between 4 and 8 gigs of data on them, which cannot fit on one of the EXAbyte tapes. However, none of their partitions are larger than about 3 gigs, which would fit on one of the tapes. So what I'm wondering is if Amanda schedules backups on the partition level or on the host level. Just in case you're wondering why I want to use the EXAbyte tapes, it's because I have about 100+ of them, whereas I only have around 20 of the DDS3 tapes, and although I will be buying more, I'm wondering if I can get way with the EXAbyte tapes for a while... Thanks muchly, Ricky Morse ------------------------------------------------- Richard Morse Systems Administrator, MGH Biostatistics Research [EMAIL PROTECTED] <---------> 617 724 9830
