Large Backup with Amanda

2004-07-12 Thread Volker Lieder
Hello List, i have a little question. I have to backup nearly 330GB of Data in my company from different hosts. At this moment we have installed 2 Servers. One server catches all the backups from the different clients with amanda and makes a huge folder within all the backup-files. After that we

Re: Large Backup with Amanda

2004-07-12 Thread Jon Mercer
Volker, When designing a backup strategy one of the most important considerations will be recovery. You haven't described what that requirement is so you should be careful of the answers you get! Amanda backups can use a version of the GNU tar which can be used to generate tar type backups if

Re: Large Backup with Amanda

2004-07-12 Thread Volker Lieder
Martin Hepworth wrote: Why the multilevel backups? Are you using files based tapes in amanda for the 1st machine then real tapes in the 2nd? On the first machine we have virtual devices on a hard disk, on the second machine is a backup-tape on which we backup the files created on the first