On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 05:42:22PM +0100, Rodrigo Ventura wrote: > > That's an interesting configuration. I think I'll adopt something like > that here. The only problem is that someone (i.e., me) will have to > change the magazine at the right times. Hum, since each magazine has 6 > slots, can't use one per day, unless I skip a day, maybe sunday. I
That is what I do. But do you really mean Sunday? At what time of the day do you do your backups? In my case I do them at about 2AM. So what some call the "Sunday" backup is actually done on Monday. I do skip Sunday. Saturday morning 2AM backs up Friday and Monday 2AM backs up the lower activity weekend. Skipping Sunday means that when I wake up on Saturday, the last tape of the magazine has been used and the first tape of the next magazine will not be used until 2AM Monday. I can change magazines anytime over the weekend. > also like the swapping of cartriges, and storing one of them > off-site. It creeps me a bit to have the servers and the backup tapes > in the same room... I rotate 4, one in use, the most recent one still on-site for possible recovery needs, the second most recent off-site, and the last one (least recent) back from off-site ready to be used next weekend. > > What exactly are those archive config tapes anyway? > An amanda config different from my daily config that only does level 0's (takes most of 5 tapes) and which I only do occasionally. Then I stick the tapes (out of magazine) on the shelf for historical recovery if needed. When I do an archive backup, I use that extra day over the weekend as it takes a long time. An example, I recall needing correspondence and data files from a machine scrapped two years earlier. I was able to recover them from an archive tape. BTW my archive config is really two configs, system (/, /usr, /var, ...) and user files (mostly home dirs). The two configs use different disklist files but the same tapelist, logdir, indexdir, ... -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
