I am backing up several machines to one large RAID array on one
machine. I have set my tapetype length to 4608 mbytes (4.5G) so I can
eventually burn these tapes to DVD's (I have a 200 disk DVD-RW). On a
couple machines I have smaller RAID arrays which contain 150+Gb of
data. I am trying to
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 11:14, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> 2) Send a full tapecycle's worth of tapes offsite.
I'd like to make a slight technical correction here-- I believe it
should be "a full dumpcycle's worth of tapes", as the tapecycle is the
total number of tapes in rotation. Taking all your tap
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:24:24AM -0700, bao wrote:
> For networks where there
> is a full-time backup admin, letting Amanda spread out the level 0's
> seems simpler. Restoration is what the admin
> does most often, and (s)he should have mastered it.
As I mentioned earlier, amanda works great fo
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:24:24AM -0700, bao wrote:
> But for networks where restoring occurs once in a while, tape management
> is a tedious task.
All the more reason to let amanda do it for you.
> I'm just an intern,
> and the company's plan is to have a set-up that is easy that "anyone"
> c
Paul Bijnens wrote:
Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:48:35PM +0200, Mark Le Noury wrote:
I'm just a bit worried, for example, that the full dump for 1 disk
on 1 server gets done on a Monday, while the full dump for another
disk on another server gets done on a Tuesday etc.
Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:48:35PM +0200, Mark Le Noury wrote:
I'm just a bit worried, for example, that the full dump for 1 disk
on 1 server gets done on a Monday, while the full dump for another
disk on another server gets done on a Tuesday etc.
Why does this worry you?
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:48:35PM +0200, Mark Le Noury wrote:
> I guess I wanted it to do full backups on the Saturday just for ease of
> administration. That way I would know exactly which tapes the full dumps
> were on and I could send them to storage accordingly.
There are two common ways of h
like that would work for you?
Mike
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-Original Message-
From: Mark Le Noury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Amanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wed Sep 10 06:48:35 2003
Subject: RE: configuration question
Hi Paul,
I g
nding the way Amanda does things though.
Thanks,
Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Bijnens
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 12:26 PM
To: Mark Le Noury
Cc: Amanda
Subject: Re: configuration question
Mark Le Noury wrote:
>
Mark Le Noury wrote:
I have set up amanda and it is running fine – I was using it to do a
full dump of 3 fileservers every night. We are using an autoloader and
the dump was running across 4 tapes and taking 15 hours to do.
We then decided it would be better to start incrementally dumping the
Hi,
I know this has been discussed before – but I just
wanted to confirm something…
I have set up amanda and it is running fine – I was
using it to do a full dump of 3 fileservers every night. We are using an
autoloader and the dump was running across 4 tapes and taking 15 hours to
Hi,
I have been happily running with my current config for over a year:
Equipment: ADIC 12-tape DDS-2 autoloader
Software: Amanda 2.4.2p2 on FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE
dumpcycle 7 days
runspercycle 7
tapecycle 11 tapes
runtapes 1
(I only have 11 tapes in the magazine because when I had a cleaning
tape
On Feb 14, 2001, "Wood, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've thought about using the 'incronly' strategy; however, the usefulness of
> this strategy breaks down when dump levels reach 9. I've thought about
> switching to GNUTAR and tinkering with the source to have DUMP_LEVELS =
> 2147483647
you
would always have one of every database on tapes and one on the partition.
Regards,
Ryan Williams
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From: "Wood, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 8:46 PM
Subject: Configuration questio
Hi,
I have a filesystem "/sybase_dumps". Each night a script dumps Sybase
databases to this filesystem and the files are quite large. There is a
purge script which cleans out the filesystem of files more than X days old -
we need to keep X days worth of dump files on-line. Basically, I only wa
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