On 2/14/24 15:33, Winston Sorfleet wrote:
Glad to see you're still alive and kicking Gene. While hardly
Amanda-specific, given you're likely to be doing a lot more writes
(backups) than reads (restores), you probably want to give some thought
your file system choice (I'd think XFS maybe) and operating parameters
accordingly. Not to mention your NFS sync options. You might even want
to tune your Ethernet MTU particularly if you're pre-compressing via
Amanda comp-tar.
File systemwise I'm fam with ext4, and my experience with NFS has been
poor at best. I've been using sshfs shares fot about 20 years now, no
surprises, unlike NFS and samba/cifs. XFS might be tried if I could
actually find something that explains the diffs down to the dirt under
its fingernails level.
Do you have a link to something educational in that arena?
Thanks Winston.
On 2024-02-14 04:21, gene heskett wrote:
Greetings All;
Due to the simultainious failure of a pair of 2T seacrates, spinning
rust, which p'd me off so bad there is now only one spinning rust
drive left here at the Heskett Ranchete's 8 or 9 machine network.
So I've been out of the amanda users category for a couple years.
So here's a description of what I am building:
A 5 drive slot bare drive cage, top slot occupied by a bpi-m5 running
a full desktop armbian install, but headless.
Slots 2 & 3 will be occupied by a pair of 4T SSD's and a pair of 2T
gigastone SSD's for 12T worth of vtapes.
the 4th slot will have at least one, maybe 2, 1T samsung SSD's. Or 2
mote 2T gigastones since I have them
two separate subdirs on each of these 2 drives, one for amandas
database on 1 drive, and a copy on the other drive, done by rsync as
the second line of the cron trigger'd nightly amanda backup and 2nd
dir on each as a 2 drive lvm for a holding disk.
This will all run on a 5V10A psu in slot 5. A 7 port usb3 hub glued to
the side of the drive cage and startech usb-3 to sata-III adapters
will complete the wiring mess. One cat5 connected to the bpi-m5 &
plugged into my main net switch. The amanda will be the arm64 version
from the debian bookworm repos.
So get out your anti-aircraft battery's and shoot me down! What did I
miss IOW?
Yeah, thru the magic of the cath lab at WVU-Ruby, I am still here,
doing my thing with 3d printers these days, and my next b-day if I
make it to October will be my 90th.
Many thanks, take care, stay warm and well everyone.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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