Hello, Jon, Thanks for going through my long email. And thanks a lot for the suggestions. Regards, Yogesh
Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:37:41AM -0800, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: > Hi All, > > I referred the doc at > http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/How_To:Backup_Partitions_Mounted_via_NFS > > I just need to confirm whether whatever I have understood from this doc is > correct. What I understand is that I need to mount these nfs shares from 2 > different servers on some Linux host on the network and modify the disklist > of my amanda full backup configuration to include the new amanda client. For > eg my disklist file would look like > > /vol/vol1/home { > root-tar > estimate calcsize > } > ## Above is the original config. Given below is the additonal config > ## for backing up the nfs shares mounted on an nfs client > > /nfs/project1 { > root-tar > estimate calcsize > } > /nfs/project2 { > root-tar > estimate calcsize > } > > ## end of disklist > > Would like to know whether my understanding is correct,whetehr this will work > and whether all these DLEs can be backed up on a single tape media. As far as I remember, that is it. I call them "indirect" clients vs. "direct" clients that have amanda software. For about 2 years I had a diverse set of unix boxes to backup, Solaris x86 & sparc, HP-UX, Tru-64, plus linux systems. Not wanting to bother compiling all those client amanda's, I NFS mounted them all on my x86 server and backed up /net//. You can also do similar backups of smb/cifs mounts. Two notes, you don't need to use a different direct clients than your amanda server. And it might be more network efficient to use the amanda server. If a different direct client is used, the data from the indirect client must travel twice over the network, once to the direct client and then to the server. Anytime I start using the same definitions more than once, I tend to make a new definition. define dumptype calc-tar { root-tar estimate calcsize } define dumptype calc-nfs { calc-tar } /vol/vol1/home calc-tar /nfs/project1 nfs-tar /nfs/project2 nfs-tar -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)
