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

Re: Overlapping backups: should I expect problems?

2008-09-16 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
John Morris wrote: 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

Re: Overlapping backups: should I expect problems?

2008-09-16 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 04:41:04PM +0800, John Morris wrote: 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

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,

Re: Overlapping backups: should I expect problems?

2008-09-15 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
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 file that is presumably