Gene Heskett wrote: > > It looks ok on the face of it. However, doing one full a week is > overloading the egg basket and issueing an open invite for a > stumble.
I'm going to be doing daily incrementals as well as weekly full backups. both will be on a 2 week cycle. > > Unless tapes for your deck are prohibitively expensive (whats your > data worth?) At present this is only for my home network, so the main stuff I want backed up are altered server config files and programs, email and home directorys and some mysql databases. Once happy and fully confident with amanda, I will then use amanda at work, where I look after 10 servers and will be more stringent on the backup procdure. and a tape is sufficient to hold the full system, you > really should add more tapes and do a run nightly. I will be running the jobs in the early hrs of the morning, and I only have one drive which is not autoloading, thus only holds 1 tape at a time. I'm using DAT DDS3 for full and DDS2 for incremental backups (these will be done every day, once I worked out the weekly full backup). The full only has to back up 3 servers (the complete systems on each server is a total of 350 - 400 mb each ), but using full compression. The workstations I don't care about, as they mount their home directorys from my file server over NFS and NIS. Sorry if I'm not making this clear, I can give a better description of what my layout is if needed, plus being a newbie to amanda, I'm not 100% sure of its full capabilities yet. Mark
