On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Ian Eure wrote:
>Anyways... can you divulge how I'd get this running, or suggest a better
>solution? It seems silly to stick 6 DAT tapes (24gb) in a tape cartridge that
>has to be swapped out every day when the daily incremental backups aren't
>breaking 250mb. I'm completely open to alternate solutions if you can suggest
>one.
Umm, excuse me if I'm being rude, but duh. You stick 6 DAT tapes in the
cartridge on Monday, and let Amanda use /one/ tape each night. It
automatically gets a full set of level 0 dumps over the course of the
week, as well as incrementals every night. This is what amanda is
designed to do and it works damned well. I use 10 35GB AIT tapes per
two weeks to backup my data and I see amanda getting a full set of level
0s done every three days or so, plus incrementals every night. Amanda
is not a traditional backup system where you get full dumps weekly and
incrementals every night. Amanda is designed to minimize time between
full dumps, so you can get them more than once a week, and to insure
that you always have incrementals to restore to any day within the
dumpcycle. It is also designed to fill up your tapes. You should never
be putting 250mb on a 24gb tape. You should always be putting 24gb on
the tape. Amanda will do this for you.
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Brandon D. Valentine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Computer Geek, Center for Structural Biology
"This isn't rocket science -- but it _is_ computer science."
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