--On May 14, 2005 3:20:55 AM +0200 Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My plan of action is to edit /etc/lvm.conf to alter the umask parameter to 027 so that the /dev/mapper files are group readable. Then I was planning to change them to be group "backup" so that Amanda can read them.
Does this make sense or am I working towards disaster?
That works fine as long as your'e using dump, but you'll need to have a backup device with media atleast 158Gb in size, and as your larger filesystem fills, a device capable of storing 450+Gb.... AMANDA currently can't split DLEs across tapes, dumpe2fs is also potentially unreliable and quite a few 'in the know' refuse to use it and instead insist GNU Tar is a far better option.
I'm not aware of the specifics with dumpe2fs because I only use tar (reiserfs filesystems) but have heard that it's not really well supported.
YMMV.
