On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Neulinger, Nathan R. wrote:
> Unfortunately, UMR is too cheap to buy a decent backup package, so we're
> stuck with Seagate BkupExec. We've got a really ugly hack in place to make
> it work with afs. Basically wrapping libc using a LD_PRELOAD'ed library.
>
> What I described below would be shifting that wrapped functionality from the
> servers to another box.
Well it's kind of hard to be too cheap to buy Amanda, seeing as how it's
free, which BkupExec is not. And Amanda already does everything you're
suggesting to do. It just needs to be hacked to call vos dump/vos restore.
-Mitch
> -- Nathan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mitch Collinsworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 9:41 AM
> > To: Neulinger, Nathan R.
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: AFS backup/restore using ADSM
> >
> >
> > > I believe my next backup approach is going to be putting a
> > server in between
> > > the backup host and the file servers, and somehow
> > interleaving (or starting
> > > in parallel in some fashion) multiple vos dump processes.
> > One to each file
> > > server. It'll mean a bunch of extra space would be required
> > on that machine,
> > > but hey, 40GB IDE disks are cheap.
> >
> > Did I just hear you say "Amanda"? :-)
> >
> > -Mitch
> >
>
