Re: Overlapping backups: should I expect problems?

2008-09-16 Thread John Morris
Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:36 PM, John Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is, is this actually a good idea? Will there be any problems I haven't anticipated, such as the two configs conflicting? For example, I notice that there is only one /etc/amandates

Overlapping backups: should I expect problems?

2008-09-15 Thread John Morris
Hi, We're doing our on-site backups using virtual tapes. Two hard drives are dedicated to this. In an attempt to be clever, I set up two configurations, DS2 and DS3, that back up the same filesystems, but whose virtual tapes are on separate disks. The idea is that if we need to restore,