Unfortunately, seagate has nice capability for backing up Novell and
Exchange using their native backup API's. unless that were to get hacked
into amanda...
You don't have to convince me... I'd dump seagate, novell, and exchange in a
second, but......
-- Nathan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mitch Collinsworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 10:41 AM
> To: Neulinger, Nathan R.
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: AFS backup/restore using ADSM
>
>
> 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
> > >
> >
>
