Thanks again! Last question before I get into exprementing with Amanda :)
How does Amanda handle shares on remote machines? Do I have to NFS mount remote shares before amdump is called? Or Amanda handle by itself? ..Rohit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon LaBadie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 12:11 PM Subject: Re: Setup > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:28:21AM +0530, Rohit wrote: > > Thanks guys for all your responses. I really appreciate it. Also, is there > > any good How-To available to get me started > > on this? > > When you download the source see the "docs" directory. > > > > > Couple of doubts though..How does Amanda differentiate between > > FULL and Incremental backups? What exactly FULL and > > INC mean? > > Full, aka level 0, is every file and directory. Incrementals also > have levels, 1-9. An incremental of level X is all files changed > since the last lower level backup. > > > > > Does it mean that Amanda will do FULL/INC backup of one or > > more shares specified on the servers based on its internal > > logic? > > Here is a sample of a portion of my "amoverview" of recent backups. > You can see the levels it choose, errors (system down, network troubles) > and some "disklist entries" (DLE's) that I have specified never do > incrementals so there are blanks. I nominally have a dumpcycle > (time between level 0's) of 1 week and do backups 6 times a week. > > > date 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 10 10 > host disk 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 01 02 > > butch / 0 2 3 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 2 > butch //tec/C 0 1 1 E E E E E E E E E E > butch //tec/D 1 1 0 E E E E E E E E E E > butch //tec/E 0 1 1 E E E E E E E E E E > butch /export 1 2 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 > butch /images E E E E E E 0 0 > butch /opt 1 2 2 E 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 > butch /u 0 1 1 0 1 E E 0 1 1 1 0 1 > butch /u2 2 3 4 4 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 > butch //winnie/C 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 > butch //winnie/D 1 1 E E 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 E 0 > butch //winnie/E 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 > butch //winnie/F 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 > butch /var 0 2 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 > butch /w 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 1 > butch /w/InstalledPkg 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 > butch /w/Packages 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 > butch /w/tape8 2 0 1 E 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 > butch /w2 0 1 1 0 1 2 E 2 0 1 1 1 2 > butch StaticFS-1 0 0 0 > > Can you tell when "tec" went offline? That is my laptop and I took > it with me to the SunNetwork conference. > > > > > The problem I have is this: > > I have a share on my NT server which houses users home > > directories aka (Z:) drive and all users outlook express > > mails and profiles are stored in their Z: drive in a > > specific direcory. > > > > Using my custom scripts, I used to do FULL backups of users > > email directory (stored in their Z: drive) once in a week > > and do incrementals 3 days in a week. > > > > Ditto for backing up their profiles stored on Z: drive. > > > > But as of backing up linux servers go, I do either full or > > incremental for all the shares (and not directories within > > it) > > > > Will Amanda able to do this? Or better? > > You tell us, we already like it. > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > JG Computing > 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 > Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
