Re: Time and space

2018-05-03 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thu, 2018-05-03 at 18:47 +0100, J Martin Rushton wrote: > At work I run something like the enclosed /etc/cron.daily/disk_report on > all nodes (except the diskless ones). It means that every day I have a > simple configuration report tied into the backups. OK, I'm not using > Amanda at work,

Re: Time and space

2018-05-03 Thread J Martin Rushton
On 03/05/18 18:07, Alan Hodgson wrote: > > Restores are effectively manual. There is no fire-and-forget bare-metal > restore process. You need to prep the filesystems and then restore them > one-by-one through Amanda (or from the backup images themselves; > they're just tarballs with a short

Re: Time and space

2018-05-03 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thu, 2018-05-03 at 09:04 -0700, Chris Miller wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have three questions. > > > > First, I need a "Theory of Operation" tutorial. Amanda has a lot of > moving parts, and I don't have a very clear understanding of what > they are or how they work. If I had a better

Time and space

2018-05-03 Thread Chris Miller
Hi Folks, I have three questions. First, I need a "Theory of Operation" tutorial. Amanda has a lot of moving parts, and I don't have a very clear understanding of what they are or how they work. If I had a better understanding, I might be able to answer a lot of my own questions. For