On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 Gene Heskett wrote:
If separate configs, which I can't personally find an overpowering reason
for, you would need, most likely, two separate tape libraries each
containing its own drive(s), or 2 separate big hard drives.
Actually two separate configs do not require
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:
code
localhost /bin
* Andrius D. Ilgunas andr...@ilgunas.net [20140113 11:19]:
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
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 08:18:22AM -0800, Andrius D. Ilgunas wrote:
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
On Monday 13 January 2014 12:56:52 Andrius D. Ilgunas did opine:
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.
A good way to put it in the vernacular, yes it is.
While I'm processing it all, might
. Then it determines how best to
achieve balanced dumping while still keeping to your defined
parameters. For any specific DLE it may continue to do a level 1
incremental, switch it to a smaller level 2 incremental, or promote
it to an early level 0 full dump.
So a strategy might
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Andrius
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Gerrit A. Smit gerritas...@xs4all.nlwrote:
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 that it would
be easier to
On Sunday 12 January 2014 15:56:32 Andrius D. Ilgunas did opine:
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Andrius
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com 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
amdump for those
file system or disks that were going to be affected.
BTW, the traditional style of backups is possible with Amanda.
One way is to set the config with a strategy of incremental only.
Then in your in your crontab, for the day you want full backups
you use amdump options to override
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
Thanks a brazillion Charles!!
I'll probably setup my systems likewise, but I wonder if anyone has any
other opinions on this.
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On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Charles Curley
charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote:
On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:44:07 -0800
Andrius D. Ilgunas
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:29:27AM -0800, Andrius D. Ilgunas wrote:
Thanks a brazillion Charles!!
I'll probably setup my systems likewise, but I wonder if anyone has any
other opinions on this.
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What kind of write speed to S3 can you expect?
Can your backups to holding disk
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 databases to /mnt/s3/bucket1 of around 250MB will timeout
approximately 30% of the time. But I'm sure that copying over
.
If I understand the terminology, this would be an archive?
So a strategy might be: on the 30th day, do a full dump, and copy it to
'somewhere safe', whether on S3, or a DVD.That seems like a pretty
straight-forward concept, but might this idea be improved upon somehow?
I just finished reading
balanced dumping
while still keeping to your defined parameters. For any specific DLE it
may continue to do a level 1 incremental, switch it to a smaller level 2
incremental, or promote it to an early level 0 full dump.
So a strategy might be: on the 30th day, do a full dump, and copy
parameters. For any specific DLE it
may continue to do a level 1 incremental, switch it to a smaller level 2
incremental, or promote it to an early level 0 full dump.
So a strategy might be: on the 30th day, do a full dump, and copy it to
'somewhere safe', whether on S3, or a DVD
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 03:42:32PM -0500, Bryan Hodgson wrote:
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 01:11:00PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:01:36AM -0500, Bryan Hodgson wrote:
One day next week I want to prevent any level 0 dumps, and run only
incrementals for that one
) {
- days = est(dp)-next_level0; /* This is 0 by definition */
+ days = est(dp)-next_level0;
+ if (days 0) days = 0;
if(daysmy_dumpcycle !dp-skip_full dp-strategy != DS_NOFULL
dp-strategy != DS_INCRONLY) {
sp[days].disks++;
= no.)
There is more than one runcycle in our tape cycle, and we won't be
over-writing the most recent level 0 for any dump.
I recognize that changing strategy to 'incronly' for all dumptypes in
amanda.conf should have the desired effect, but would prefer to do
this through amadmin.
TIA.
Bryan
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:01:36AM -0500, Bryan Hodgson wrote:
One day next week I want to prevent any level 0 dumps, and run only
incrementals for that one night.
It's not obvious to me from the docs that 'amadmin force bump' will
actually prevent amanda from concluding that it's time for
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 01:11:00PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:01:36AM -0500, Bryan Hodgson wrote:
One day next week I want to prevent any level 0 dumps, and run only
incrementals for that one night.
It's not obvious to me from the docs that 'amadmin force
strategy ideas based on prior knowledge
from other kinds of backup software. After you have read through that a
couple of times, you might have different questions.
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Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
On 14/08/09, Frank Smith (fsm...@hoovers.com) wrote:
Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Amanda will do the compression for you. You define it in the dumptype in
amanda.conf. If you have a holding disk, then it will compress the data
as it goes onto the holding disk.
I wouldn't put the holding disks in raid.
Hu hu... Interesting... I have a 4 disks RAID-0 holding disk, and it isn't
fast... I always wondered if I should use seperated (non-RAID) drives...
Cyrille Bollu
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On Monday 17 August 2009, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
I wouldn't put the holding disks in raid.
Hu hu... Interesting... I have a 4 disks RAID-0 holding disk, and it isn't
fast... I always wondered if I should use seperated (non-RAID) drives...
Its been my observation that software raids are slower.
On Monday 17 August 2009, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
I wouldn't put the holding disks in raid.
Hu hu... Interesting... I have a 4 disks RAID-0 holding disk, and it
isn't fast... I always wondered if I should use seperated (non-RAID)
drives...
To drive an LTO-4 your holding disk needs to read
Cyrille Bollu wrote:
Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
I wouldn't put the holding disks in raid.
Hu hu... Interesting... I have a 4 disks RAID-0 holding disk, and it
isn't fast... I always wondered if I should use seperated (non-RAID)
drives...
Here is an extremely interesting article that everyone
On 17/08/09, Chris Hoogendyk (hoogen...@bio.umass.edu) wrote:
Cyrille Bollu wrote:
Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
I wouldn't put the holding disks in raid.
snip
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=484.
While this guy is looking at things like database servers and
exchange, we ought to be able to
On 14/08/09, Frank Smith (fsm...@hoovers.com) wrote:
Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Amanda will do the compression for you. You define it in the dumptype in
amanda.conf. If you have a holding disk, then it will compress the data
as it goes onto the holding disk. If you don't have a holding disk,
Hi Chris
On 13/08/09, Chris Hoogendyk (hoogen...@bio.umass.edu) wrote:
... the solution is akin to the Japanese monks caring for Bonzai
I liked this idea about tape archives -- constant pruning and
maintenance. Difficult to sell though.
As for your specific questions:
You should be
Hi,
Here's my (very) small personnal experience:
A few years ago, when I tried it, I couldn't enable server-side software
compression while bypassing the holding disk with my IBM ULTIUM LTO-3
drive: Tape speed was sinking to about 5MB/s.
My backup server was a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with 4 Intel
Cyrille Bollu wrote:
Here's my (very) small personnal experience:
A few years ago, when I tried it, I couldn't enable server-side
software compression while bypassing the holding disk with my IBM
ULTIUM LTO-3 drive: Tape speed was sinking to about 5MB/s.
My backup server was a Dell
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
Hi Chris
On 13/08/09, Chris Hoogendyk (hoogen...@bio.umass.edu) wrote:
snip
Typically, we set up Amanda with holding disk space.
snip
If all the storage is locally attached (actually, AoE drives storage
units connected over Ethernet), I am hoping to avoid
Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
Hi Chris
On 13/08/09, Chris Hoogendyk (hoogen...@bio.umass.edu) wrote:
snip
Typically, we set up Amanda with holding disk space.
snip
If all the storage is locally attached (actually, AoE drives storage
units connected over
Apologies that this email doesn't have the correct threading ID. I
posted through Backup Central originally and I can't get hold of the
original mails on the Amanda users list since subscribing properly to it
-- the advertised ftp archives don't seem to exist any more.
Many thanks to Chris,
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:08:03 -0400
Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 06:17:17PM -0400, rorycl wrote:
So maybe you should provide a complete OS distribution, including the
backup software. Like a customized version of one of the live CD
releases of Linux. But
On 13/08/09, Charles Curley (charlescur...@charlescurley.com) wrote:
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:08:03 -0400
Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 06:17:17PM -0400, rorycl wrote:
So maybe you should provide a complete OS distribution, including the
backup software. Like a
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
On 13/08/09, Charles Curley (charlescur...@charlescurley.com) wrote:
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:08:03 -0400
Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 06:17:17PM -0400, rorycl wrote:
So maybe you should provide a complete OS distribution,
I'm going to cross-post this text on the Amanda and Bacula lists.
Apologies in advance if you see this twice.
Our company is about to provide centralised backups for several pools of
backup data of between 1 and 15TB in size. Each pool changes daily but
backups to tape will only occur once a
rorycl wrote:
An important aspect of the system is that the tapes should be readable
for 12 years, by other parties if necessary. From this point of view we
like the idea of providing a CD with each tape set of the software
needed to extract the contents, together with a listing of the
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:17:17 -0400
rorycl amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:
An important aspect of the system is that the tapes should be readable
for 12 years, by other parties if necessary. From this point of view
we like the idea of providing a CD with each tape set of the software
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 06:17:17PM -0400, rorycl wrote:
I'm going to cross-post this text on the Amanda and Bacula lists.
Apologies in advance if you see this twice.
Our company is about to provide centralised backups for several pools of
backup data of between 1 and 15TB in size. Each
I'm setting up Amanda for the first time and would like to configure
it for our existing backup strategy. We want to do complete backups
nightly during weekdays, i.e. Monday-Friday night. Once a week, let's
say Wednesday, we want to take one tape to an off-site vault and bring
another tape back
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:50:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm setting up Amanda for the first time and would like to configure
it for our existing backup strategy. We want to do complete backups
nightly during weekdays, i.e. Monday-Friday night. Once a week, let's
say Wednesday, we
Hi,
I'm quite new to amanda but as far as I have read about it and after
some first tries, it seems that it could do the job for our needs, but I
would need some advice for a backup strategy and for how to setup up amanda
I will describe you our current situation and our needs as well as my
experience about that ?
Thomas
Thomas Ginestet a écrit :
Hi list,
I've got a problem with my dump cycle. In my dumpcycle of 7 days (with
5 runs per cycle) and a strategy standard, I've got 5 full backups
instead of one full and 4 incremental backups. Here is my amanda.conf:
org test
Hi list,
I've got a problem with my dump cycle. In my dumpcycle of 7 days (with 5
runs per cycle) and a strategy standard, I've got 5 full backups instead
of one full and 4 incremental backups.
Here is my amanda.conf:
org test # your organization name for reports
dumpuser
Regarding my recent post regarding strategy incronly and skip-full,
I just found out more about the problems I've had in the past with this
simply by checking the amanda.conf manual page it says:
skip-full /boolean/
Default: no. If true and planner has scheduled a full backup
Jon LaBadie wrote:
Haven't seen anyone on the list mention using it, but Iomega
introduced some interesting hardware last year. I think they
call it Rev, basically a small, removalble hard drive
cartridge. Think high capacity, tiny zip drive as it has
35GB native capacity and a builtin
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:03:59PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote:
Jon LaBadie wrote:
Haven't seen anyone on the list mention using it, but Iomega
introduced some interesting hardware last year. I think they
call it Rev, basically a small, removalble hard drive
cartridge. Think high capacity,
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 03:03:59PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote:
Jon LaBadie wrote:
Haven't seen anyone on the list mention using it, but Iomega
introduced some interesting hardware last year. I think they
call it Rev, basically a small, removalble hard drive
cartridge. Think high capacity,
FM wrote:
Hello everybody,
My ibm 35810 died and I will cost use 2 CA$ to replace it. So I
thing it's time to switch for HD backups.
Does some of you using HD backup ? if so what is you stategy ?
How you take backup off-site ?
What kind of hardware are you using ? SCSI or SATA RAID
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0400, FM wrote:
Hello everybody,
My ibm 35810 died and I will cost use 2 CA$ to replace it. So I
thing it's time to switch for HD backups.
Does some of you using HD backup ? if so what is you stategy ?
How you take backup off-site ?
What kind of
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 at 12:13pm, Jon LaBadie wrote
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0400, FM wrote:
Hello everybody,
My ibm 35810 died and I will cost use 2 CA$ to replace it. So I
thing it's time to switch for HD backups.
Does some of you using HD backup ? if so what is you
Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/16/2005 01:02:33 PM:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 at 12:13pm, Jon LaBadie wrote
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0400, FM wrote:
Hello everybody,
My ibm 35810 died and I will cost use 2 CA$ to replace it. So I
thing it's time to switch for
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:02:33PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 at 12:13pm, Jon LaBadie wrote
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:40:59AM -0400, FM wrote:
Hello everybody,
My ibm 35810 died and I will cost use 2 CA$ to replace it. So I
thing it's time to
Hello everybody,
My ibm 35810 died and I will cost use 2 CA$ to replace it. So I
thing it's time to switch for HD backups.
Does some of you using HD backup ? if so what is you stategy ?
How you take backup off-site ?
What kind of hardware are you using ? SCSI or SATA RAID ?
Thanks !
FM wrote:
Does some of you using HD backup ? if so what is you stategy ?
How you take backup off-site ?
At one site, I'm using two external FireWire HDDs (Maxtor 5000DV), 5
'virtual tapes' on each. One of the HDDs is off-site, every Monday it's
brought in and the HDD that was used during
On Friday 12 August 2005 09:40, FM wrote:
Hello everybody,
My ibm 35810 died and I will cost use 2 CA$ to replace it. So I
thing it's time to switch for HD backups.
Does some of you using HD backup ? if so what is you stategy ?
How you take backup off-site ?
What kind of hardware are you
We use a nice GUI program to do that, but the product is outdated and
buying a new licence is too costly. Amanda seems good, and we use more
and more open source software here so we decided to try it out.
Our current method of backup is the traditional incrementals Mon, Tue,
Wed, Thu, and Friday
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 03:45:57PM -0400, Guy Dallaire enlightened us:
We use a nice GUI program to do that, but the product is outdated and
buying a new licence is too costly. Amanda seems good, and we use more
and more open source software here so we decided to try it out.
Our current
How can I manage to do full backups of every server each FRIDAY ? I
know I should create a new config specifying always full and an
infinite tapecylce and run it on fridays, and run the regular
schedule on the other days.
Instead of having cron run amdump directly, you could have it run a
script
Has anyone example of amanda implement the infinite
grandfather-father-son strategy.
Cheers
Chuck
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of the documentation and esp how the planner handles
incrementals/full backups.
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Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
Chuck Amadi wrote:
Has anyone example of amanda implement the infinite
grandfather-father-son strategy.
Cheers
Chuck
of the documentation and esp how the planner handles
incrementals/full backups.
--
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Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
Chuck Amadi wrote:
Has anyone example of amanda implement the infinite
grandfather-father-son strategy.
Cheers
Chuck Amadi wrote:
Am I on the right track.
No, you're not.
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 11:40 +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote:
Have a read of the documentation and esp how the planner handles
incrementals/full backups.
Have you done that?
And do you have a reason why not to follow the amanda-planner?
--
Amadi wrote:
Has anyone example of amanda implement the infinite
grandfather-father-son strategy.
Cheers
Chuck
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Hi, Chuck,
on Mittwoch, 13. April 2005 at 12:30 you wrote to amanda-users:
CA Has anyone example of amanda implement the infinite
CA grandfather-father-son strategy.
This is what we call the friday-tape-question:
http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id2519662
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best regards,
Stefan
level 0 backups and has the tapes marked
as don't reuse.
Have a read of the documentation and esp how the planner handles
incrementals/full backups.
Chuck Amadi wrote:
Has anyone example of amanda implement the infinite
grandfather-father-son strategy.
You may have read
anyone example of amanda implement the infinite
grandfather-father-son strategy.
Cheers
Chuck
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Chuck Amadi wrote:
Hi agian
I now got it.
almost :-)
My Friday tapes i.e weeklySets their amanda.conf will have level 0
and thus I just pull out the last Friday of the month for archiving.
and run amlabel to create the pulled tape.
dumpcycle 5 # 4/5 Friday tapes last tape to be pulled.
of amanda implement the infinite
CA grandfather-father-son strategy.
This is what we call the friday-tape-question:
http://www.amanda.org/docs/topten.html#id2519662
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On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 at 5:24pm, Vicki Stanfield wrote
I think what I am really talking about is the dumptype. I have the ones
I listed defined. I think I might be confusing them with priority. I
suppose the dumptype could only mean level of compression. But then I
need more information
I am using amanda to back up my servers. I have the following situation:
There is about 42G of data to be backed up on one particular machine.
This data is mostly static data in a directory structure which creates a
new directory whenever 1000 files are in the current directory and
numbers the
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:47:51PM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote:
P.S. I think I asked before but didn't get an answer. Is there a source
for an explanation of the different priorities of backups. I have the
following defined from an inherited amanda.conf file:
always-full (obvious)
Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:47:51PM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote:
P.S. I think I asked before but didn't get an answer. Is there a source
for an explanation of the different priorities of backups. I have the
following defined from an inherited amanda.conf file:
always-full
line 10:
host butch:
interface default
disk /var:
program GNUTAR
exclude list /usr/local/etc/amanda/exclude.gtar
priority 0
dumpcycle 7
maxdumps 8
maxpromoteday 1
strategy STANDARD
compress CLIENT FAST
comprate
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:47:51PM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote:
I am using amanda to back up my servers. I have the following situation:
There is about 42G of data to be backed up on one particular machine.
This data is mostly static data in a directory structure which creates a
new
Apologies if this has come up before. Couldn't find anything relevant.
I'm talking about level 0 dumps (not incrementals). Using ait-3 tapes,
GNUTAR (not linux dump), a tape library, 104GB holding disk and
setting runtapes greater than 1 (I need to dump several tapes-worth of
data). NO
Chris Loken wrote:
Apologies if this has come up before. Couldn't find anything relevant.
I'm talking about level 0 dumps (not incrementals). Using ait-3 tapes,
GNUTAR (not linux dump), a tape library, 104GB holding disk and
setting runtapes greater than 1 (I need to dump several tapes-worth
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:35:29PM -0500, Chris Loken wrote:
Apologies if this has come up before. Couldn't find anything relevant.
I'm talking about level 0 dumps (not incrementals). Using ait-3 tapes,
GNUTAR (not linux dump), a tape library, 104GB holding disk and
setting runtapes
Frank Smith wrote:
How difficult would it be to implement a 'best fit' strategy?
The number of possibilities is extremely large, and
because the tapecapacity is only an approximation, not worth
the cost. My AIT-1 tapes hit end of tape between 33 and 34 Gbyte.
And rarely there is one which
Paul Jon - thanks for the tip about using taperalgo. I wasn't aware of
this parameter. Will try it out but I'm not sure how well it will work
for me - I'm only dumping from one client, there are a lot of
filesystems that are large compared to the tape size and there isn't
enough space to keep
I'd like to add several laptops to my current configuration. I was
wondering what solutions people used for transient hosts. Ideally, the
main backup configuration (which handles workstations) would run in the
evening. The downside of this is that laptops are VERY rarely (if ever) on
the
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Richard Karnesky wrote:
3. Force users to backup to a server
If you have sufficient spare diskspace, let the user rsync from time to time to
this space. Then let Amanda backup this space, together with the other machines
that are always available.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
I'm beginning to investigate using external USB 2.0 / Firewire drives to
do backups of some systems. The idea is that we could keep 2-3 spare
PCs around, then if your computer is toast, we just ship it out for
repairs, plug your external drive into one of the spare PCs, and rebuild
the system
Just getting started with Amanda and am successfully backing up
partitions on both my amanda server and a separate client with gtar - so
far so good.
Are there best practices for a bare-metal restore with amanda? In the
past, if I needed to recover a machine, I'd get the tapes I needed (that
John Bossert wrote:
Are there best practices for a bare-metal restore with amanda? In the
past, if I needed to recover a machine, I'd get the tapes I needed (that
I'd produced with dump with the machine quiesced); boot the machine
from CD (or tape - yes, I'm that old...); newfs the disk
Hello All,
I would like to ask a general Amanda backup 'strategy' question here, given
by backup 'goals' below. I have a configured and working Amanda set-up but I
want to try and fit a backup policy that I believe is best suited to our
site around Amanda.
I have an 8-tape (DLT 35/70gb each
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 12:12:05PM +0100, William Hargrove wrote:
Hello All,
I would like to ask a general Amanda backup 'strategy' question here, given
by backup 'goals' below. I have a configured and working Amanda set-up but I
want to try and fit a backup policy that I believe is best
Here's a strategy that I implemented about a month ago that is working
pretty well so far:
1. run amdump every night to large RAID w/o tape, mix of full and incr
2. run script to separate images to amanda-incr and amanda-full
3. when amanda-full exceeds size of tape, run amflush
4. when RAID
In a message dated: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:12:05 BST
William Hargrove said:
I was thinking I could do the incremental backups to a hard disk area on the tape
server each night and then run Amanda once a week to archive the full backups plus
the HDD incremental ones.
I did this once, way back when
On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 12:57 AM, Paul Bijnens wrote:
Paolo Supino wrote:
more (idiotic) questions: Do the global dumpcycle and the one inside
the backup type mean the same thing? If so do they have
to have the same entry? and then what should I put in the global
dumpcycle, runspercycle
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 07:31:18AM -0700, Bruce Fletcher wrote:
And how does one cope as data storage requirements start to increase?
My understanding is that you can do the following:
- if necessary, label a few more tapes and increase the tapecycle
And probably increase runtapes to allow
Bruce Fletcher wrote:
On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 12:57 AM, Paul Bijnens wrote:
The global dumpcycle can be overruled for some specific dumptypes.
So that you can have e.g. a global dumpcycle of 7 days, but a few
important DLE's can specify a dumpcycle 0 (= full backups allways).
Runspercycle
Hi
Last week I installed amanda on a new network and in the
configuration I gave it: strategy noinc. For some unkonwn
reason amanda ignored the strategy and complained about
not being able to complete incremental backups. Today I
tried to put noinc in double quotes ( ) and I ran amcheck
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:43:21PM +0300, Paolo Supino wrote:
Hi
Last week I installed amanda on a new network and in the
configuration I gave it: strategy noinc. For some unkonwn
reason amanda ignored the strategy and complained about
not being able to complete incremental backups
? and then what should I put in the global
dumpcycle, runspercycle and tapecycle?
TIA
Paolo
-Original Message-
From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 9:42 PM
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Subject: Re: strategy
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:43:21PM
: Jon LaBadie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 9:42 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: strategy
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:43:21PM +0300, Paolo Supino wrote:
Hi
Last week I installed amanda on a new network and in the
configuration I gave it: strategy noinc. For some
Paolo Supino wrote:
more (idiotic) questions: Do the global dumpcycle and the one
inside the backup type mean the same thing? If so do they have
to have the same entry? and then what should I put in the global
dumpcycle, runspercycle and tapecycle?
The global dumpcycle can be overruled for some
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