On Sunday 20 October 2002 19:20, Jason Hines wrote: >Hi, I was hoping I could explain my server setup and situation, > and someone could tell me if Amanda would be the best solution. > >I am administrating 4 servers, one of which is a dedicated backup > server. > >I'd like to backup certain files/directories from all 3 of the > server onto a harddisk on the backup server. > >I could easily accomplish this with a Perl script using rsync/tar, > but I'm wondering about the advantages Amanda would have over > this.
While rsync is much the faster solution, its also a bit of overloading the egg basket in some cases. Some are doing just that, but IMO, amanda's record keeping is the more important aspect of doing a backup. One thing you might consider if you have beaucoup disk space on the machine you are going to run amanda on, is to use rsync to mirror the other 3 machines, and then use amanda to backup the mirrors. Best of both worlds IMO, because if the mirrors are good, the a recovery is just a reversed run of rsync away. And if the mirrors are fubar, then hopefully the previous days amanda tapes become the starting point for the recovery, which would be to the condition one day older, still pretty good. >Any recommendations / advice appreciated, thanks. > >jason -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.18% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
