"Jonathan F. Dill" wrote: > > Gordon Henderson wrote: > > > > So does no-one apart from me use Amanda? > > > > I've been using it for many years or different systems and it's never > > let me down. Emails me every day with a report and to remind me to > > change tapes if needed. > > > > I have 2 main servers here, one running Solaris, the other Linux, both > > with DLT tapes (The Solaris has a DLT4000 - 40GB compressed, the Linux > > I use AMANDA--that is the "nightly backup" that I mentioned in my other > post. I have about 70 SGI workstations with about 500 GB disk space of > which about 300 GB is actually used. The capacity of the 10h works out > to about 126 GB using AMANDA gzip compression and the 8505-XL hardware > compression turned off (I tried with hw compression turned on and I > actually got LESS data on each tape since the data was already gzipped). > > AMANDA takes care of figuring out what level backup to do when, and once > you've got the cycle set up, which tape to reuse when, so I can actually > keep all 300 GB backed up nightly on the "puny" 10h, with level-0 > backups at least once a week. Recently, I acquired an Exabyte Mammoth > to add to the setup, but I haven't received the tapes that I ordered for > it yet. The AMANDA check program runs once a day via a cron job and > sends me e-mail if there are any problems that I need to fix before the > run, otherwise it's completely automated. There is no bullshit about > trying to figure out what time to schedule what backup, or having to > type in any commands to do it, because all of that is figured out and > optimized by the AMANDA scheduler. > > -- > "Jonathan F. Dill" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > CARB Systems and Network Administrator > Home Page: http://www.umbi.umd.edu/~dill -- "Jonathan F. Dill" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) CARB Systems and Network Administrator Home Page: http://www.umbi.umd.edu/~dill
