--On Friday, December 03, 2004 17:11:18 -0500 Gil Naveh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Brain, > I was able to backup into a local hard disk - but I was not sure that it is > possible to do so remotely and on a different operating system. You can use smbmount (part of Samba) to mount a Windows share onto your Unix box. Depending on the size of your backups you may encounter performance problems, and I think there may be a 2GB filesize limit. Frank > Anyway, per > your suggestion it is time to further read from the Amanda docs... > > Thanks again, > gil > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Cuttler > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 4:37 PM > To: Gil Naveh > Cc: Brian Cuttler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Recommendation for tape drives > > > Gil, > > Amanda is designed to attempt to load average data across the week. > You can coerce it into a weekend full but it isn't the normal method > of operations. This will require a large enough single volume to > backup all partitions at level 0, rather than distrubuting level 0, 1, 2, > across 5 volumes. > > I've only heard good things about the VXA drives but have no personal > experience. > > Yes, amanda can backup to "virtual tapes" on disk - but that doesn't > really protect you from fire/flood. One of the guys where I work likes > to ask "How big an asteroid are you expecting ?" What level of disaster > do you need (mandated ?) to be ready to recover from ? This may be a > perfectly reasonable thing to do at your site, or it may not. > > How many/much of the amanda docs/howto files have you read though ? > > Brian > > > On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 04:21:12PM -0500, Gil Naveh wrote: >> 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 >> -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
