I've just built Amanda 3.3.6 on a new SuperMicro server running Ubuntu Server
14.04 LTS.
1 Supermicro AS-2022G-URF4+
1 AMD Opteron 6320 8C/8T 2.8GHZ 16MB
8 DIMM 8192MB 1600MHZ REG DDR3 ECC
2 Crucial M500 480GB SSD (these are the Amanda holding "disks")
4 Toshiba MG03SCA400 (configured as two 4TB mirrors provisioned with LVM)
1 LSI 9211-8I PCI-E x8 SAS 6.0GB/s HBA
2 LSI 9207-8E
1 Overland NEO200
1 IBM LTO6
I ran amtapetype and ended up with the following that I put in my amanda.conf:
define tapetype LTO6 {
comment "IBM ULTRIUM HH6"
comment "Created by amtapetype; compression disabled"
length 2459953152 kbytes
filemark 3289 kbytes
speed 157014 kps
blocksize 2048 kbytes
}
As an initial start, I just have the local stuff in disklist:
localhost /etc local-comp-user-tar 001 local
localhost /usr/local local-comp-user-tar 001 local
localhost /home local-comp-user-tar 001 local
localhost /data local-comp-user-tar 002 local
When I ran my first backup (granted, I haven't loaded much data on the server yet and was not
backing up anything but the server itself), I was looking for the processes to see if it had started
alright. I couldn't find them. Then I got a notification of a new email from amanda. It had surveyed
the task at hand, spawned its processes, finished the backup, put it on tape, and emailed me all in
just a minute or two. Totally blew me away. Astonishing. Holy smoking server, Batman!
Now it is all set up with labeled tapes and a cron entry. I can proceed with configuring all the
software, services, users, and adding other servers to the backups without worrying about backups.
It's going to be really interesting to see how this server performs under load
with lots of data.
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Chris Hoogendyk
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