On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:20:11 -0400 Jean-Louis Martineau <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/29/2011 10:47 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > If you want each DLE on its own tape, consider running each DLE in > > a separate amdump run. $ amdump <config> <host> <dle> > > 3.3.1 (not yet released) have a new 'max-dle-by-volume' setting. You > can set it to 1. So, besides moving (again) to Free/PC-BSD, I want to move back from Bacula to Amanda... The main reason for using Bacula (again) was problem building Amanda on my machine: In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:72:0, from amanda.h:39, from amxml.c:33: /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gqueue.h:76:10: note: previous declaration of 'g_queue_free_full' was here but I'm sure Amanda is better supported on Free/PC-BSD than on Archlinux. Another reason for re-considering Bacula was (possibly) quicker restore times due to deploying PostgreSQL database and having index available. (I'm familiar with cli and lack of GUI is not the reason, I use bconsole.) However, setup of Bacula is more complicated, requires more admin work (which I'd like to avoid) and not much gain for it (only quicker restore). So, my multimedia stuff (archived videos and scanned 35mm slides) are stored on 'amanda' tapes, but now I'd like to deploy it for my regular desktop backup. Am I correct if I consider using 'one DLE per single tape' strategy is better than spanning backup on several tapes? My backup device is single LTO-2 drives and the current Archlinux OS takes ~12G for / (linux OS) and ~560G for /home. I know that with FreeBSD it will be different (we'll use ZFS with some more slices for OS), but the main portion of backup is /home. Now, I wonder if you can give me some advice how to divide my /home (there is only one account under /home/gour) into DLEs to fit on a single tape or it is better to use tape spanning? I mean, how one is one supposed to handle backup when DLE is greater than tape capacity in general? Of course, I can divide /home/gour into several DLEs/tape based on *current* disk usage, but it may change in the future? How to handle it? Sincerely, Gour -- A person is said to be elevated in yoga when, having renounced all material desires, he neither acts for sense gratification nor engages in fruitive activities. http://www.atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810
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