On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Tracy Di Marco White wrote:
We've been adding several 1.2+ TB servers, and it has become no longer
reasonable to put a tape drive on every server, as we had been doing.
You do not have a tape drive on every server. AFS Backup can send its
backup via network to an other afs-backup-server.
Our full backups were taking longer than a day, sometimes three or
four days, and things were set up so that it was more complicated to
do incremental backups while the full backups were running.
This is really ugly. Did you evaluate the reason for that? Are the disks
to slow, or the tape-drives or the system-bus of your server machines?
Moving to a single backup server that can backup AFS, Unix, Windows,
and Novell may make my life easier.
I have 3 servers, each having 400 GB Raids (rather small now :-)
Each server_n houses the backup of (server_n+1) mod 3. AFS-Backup can
write to disks too.
But you have to cleanup the backup-db and the dumpfiles manually.
Chris
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