Hello. I've used Amanda in the past, and I'm going to migrate my current backup system to Amanda. My questions are really about Quantum SDLT tapes and Amanda configuration.
I've got about 220 or so GB which need weekly full dumps performed, and nightly incremental. I am planning on using a Quantum SDLT 320 tape drive in conjunction w/ a large hard disk (approx 200 GB). The HD will serve as storage for the incremental runs in this case. Our current setup is a single DSS-4 tape, which was fine about a year ago, but the drive space has grown rapidly while the backup capacity hasn't. My questions are as follows: 1) Is there a way to specify incremental runs to dump to the holding disk as opposed to the tape within the config files? I could just not change the tape until the weekly full dump is scheduled and turn on the auto-flush, but I'm not sure if this is the best way to do things. Running Amanda with a large tape size means consolidating incremental dumps to be flushed at the time of the full run, otherwise I waste a huge amount of tape space. 2) Has anyone used the SDLT 320 drives w/ Amanda? I searched the group archives and didn't get much from them on these drives, same with the FAQ (tape-info would be nice for these drives). 3) I am planning on using a Linux box (running RedHat 8.0) with sufficient power to do software compression. I�m wondering if this configuration makes sense for the size / time restrictions on the running of full and incremental backups. Just bouncing the idea off of the group to see if there's any issues involved with this setup. Thanks for your time. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
