Re: root vs. user partitions

2014-01-30 Thread Andrius D. Ilgunas
-- Andrius On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > > > > Other than user-tar depending on the existence of and inheriting root-tar > > parameters, and having different priority levels, is there any other > > difference between the two? Are DLEs using each treated differently >

Re: root vs. user partitions

2014-01-29 Thread Andrius D. Ilgunas
x27;t make that distinction on my disks. > > Deb Baddorf > > > On Jan 29, 2014, at 2:41 PM, "Andrius D. Ilgunas" > wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > Still going through my learning curve and I'm studying dumptypes by > looking at the examples. > &

root vs. user partitions

2014-01-29 Thread Andrius D. Ilgunas
Hey all, Still going through my learning curve and I'm studying dumptypes by looking at the examples. How/why does amanda differentiate between a root partition and a user partition? e.g. define dumptype root-tar { global program "GNUTAR" comment "root partitions dumped with tar"

Re: Backup Strategy

2014-01-13 Thread Andrius D. Ilgunas
Thanks a brazillion all! There's a lot of good info here that I'll need to take some time to digest. Amanda sure is a big sandwich. While I'm processing it all, might someone point me to the syntax of what might be called a 'compound DLE' ? Instead of something like: localhost /bin simple-gnu

Re: Backup Strategy

2014-01-12 Thread Andrius D. Ilgunas
-- Andrius On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Gerrit A. Smit wrote: > > Andrius D. Ilgunas wrote on 12-01-14 21:42: > > > > I'm not quite clear on your response. Creating a separate storage > volume isn't a problem since I'm using vtapes. Do you mean t

Re: Backup Strategy

2014-01-12 Thread Andrius D. Ilgunas
Hey again Jon, On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > Heck, I even learned about the Tower of Hanoi scheme! But one piece of > > advice stuck with me, and that is "when restoring data, you don't have > time > > to try to remember/decipher which files are on which tapes". In ot

Re: Backup Strategy

2014-01-12 Thread Andrius D. Ilgunas
-- Andrius On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: so when 500Gig and up hard drives became available, I converted to vtapes > on a hard drive, which has turned out to be, dollar for dollar, about 100x > more dependable, Awesome, that answers another question I had - "Why use tap

Re: Backup Strategy

2014-01-11 Thread Andrius D. Ilgunas
have a less taxing schedule. Now I suppose that I could combine these two schedules into one config, but it seems that it would make more sense from an administrative view to have two (more?) configs. Do you/anyone else have any thoughts on that? -- Andrius On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:10 PM

Re: Backup Strategy

2014-01-11 Thread Andrius D. Ilgunas
responses and ideas! -- Andrius On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Andrius D. Ilgunas wrote: > Hey Jon, > > I would expect them to be network-type speeds on a T1 even as the buckets > are mounted via FUSE. I don't have numbers, but I can say that a copy of > one of my databa

Re: Backup Strategy

2014-01-11 Thread Andrius D. Ilgunas
data growth is expected to be around 7% annually. And now that I brought that up, I haven't yet considered any kind of long-term archiving. One step at a time though. -- Andrius On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:29:27AM -0800, Andrius D. Ilgu

Re: Backup Hardware

2014-01-11 Thread Andrius D. Ilgunas
Heh, can't argue that. :) -- Andrius On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Alan Hodgson wrote: > On Saturday, January 11, 2014 09:46:21 AM you wrote: > > Given the option, is there any real benefit of using tape over using HDD > as > > a resource for storing backups? > > > > They're a lot easier to

Re: Backup Strategy

2014-01-11 Thread Andrius D. Ilgunas
Thanks a brazillion Charles!! I'll probably setup my systems likewise, but I wonder if anyone has any other opinions on this. -- Andrius On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:44:07 -0800 > &q

Backup Hardware

2014-01-11 Thread Andrius D. Ilgunas
Given the option, is there any real benefit of using tape over using HDD as a resource for storing backups? -- Andrius

Backup Strategy

2014-01-11 Thread Andrius D. Ilgunas
Hey All! We're setting up amanda on our servers, and the primary backup is going to be on a dedicated disk/virtual tapes. One of the offsite locations is going to be a bucket on Amazon's S3. Now I see that amanda has the capability of writing to multiple volumes in parallel, but I'm wondering if