Thanks much for your help. I have to convince my manager that it is essential to priorities backing up our systems (including budget) We are planning to perform level 0 backup during the weekend and incremental backups during the week days. Brian - it sounds like a similar situation to your system - a cycle of 5 days incremental backup and weekend full backup. Please note that we have two separated data center so I should also consider the Bandwidth on the network...
Regarding your question about how many partition do I have to back up - It is hard to say because I just realized we bought two new servers... I just want to have a backup - so I can sleep better at night... Any thoughts about the drive: "EXABYTE 80GB/160GB VXA-2 TAPE DRIVE LCD INT" ? (It cost ~950$ sounds like a good deal) Finally, we have a window server with free hard drive storage - about 200GB - my manager think that it would be better to backup our data on those hard drives. Is it feasible to do so with Amanda? and if not recommended, any good arguments are mostly welcome. Thanks again and have a great weekend, Gil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Cuttler Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 3:35 PM To: Gil Naveh Cc: Brian Cuttler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recommendation for tape drives Gil, I should also ask... how many partitions are being backed up ? What are the relative sizes of these partitions ? How often do you hope to backup your data ? For what period of time would you like to retain the data ? ie size of tape pool ? Amanda wants to schedule a level 0 dump each "dumpcycle". It will schedule higher level dumps in between the level 0 dumps. I would "guess" that a DLT drive, even a relatively small DLT 4000 might be enough to backup your data with a pool of 20 days, one/day across a 5 day "week". It is what my site did - but I don't think my solution will necessarilly meet your needs, especially since (I believe) $ 1000 is a little tight to purchase a DLT and tape pool. You could use a lower capacity drive, provided it was large enough to backup the "largest" partition you have - provided someone was in attendance to manually load the next tape, that is "manual" version of a jukebox. Recall that amanda is not designed to span a DLE across multiple output volumes. On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 02:20:58PM -0500, Gil Naveh wrote: > Some more specifications regarding getting a tape drive: > I have a Solaris 9 box which will be the Amanda server > I have to back up another Solaris box as well as a few Window2000 boxes. > The budget for the tape drive is about 500$ to 1000$ (without Jukebox - too > expensive) > I would like to use compression, yet I have no idea about the > compressibility of the data. > > My preferences would be: 1) A device that can store 30GB or more. (most > important) > 2) Easy to configure with Amanda.(very impportant) > 3) Reliable (very impportant) > 3) Fast to record and recover (less important) > thx :) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Cuttler > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 1:27 PM > To: Gil Naveh > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Recommendation for tape drives > > > > Gil, > > Amanda uses native utilities to write the tape drive. > > If you tell us your OS we might have specific recommendations. > > Do you have any idea the compressability of your data, and if you > want to use compression or not ? Jukebox ? Budget ? > > > > On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 12:30:44PM -0500, Gil Naveh wrote: > > > > hi, > > > > Can someone recommend a tape-drive that works well with Amanda and can > > backup about 40-60GB. > > > > Thx, > > Gil > > > --- > Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 > Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 > NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 > --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773
