Re: Large Backup with Amanda
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 machine, also with amanda. And i think the second amanda isn't necessary because we already dumped the files on the first machine... you can use tar to backup if really want, but you loose the power of amanda where you can keep the index file separate and it will tell you which tape to go get when you need a restore. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Volker Lieder wrote: 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 backup these folders in 80GB-portions on the other server which has a backup-tape, also with amanda. Is it possible to backup these files easily with a tar or is an amanda-backup necessary? Or has anybody an other solution or idea? Volker ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Large Backup with Amanda
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 that is what you require. If you don't have a requirement for generating tape indexes, etc. you don't seem to get much benefit from using amanda to manage the write out to tape. However, there is the matter of transporting the data between backup servers for which amanda does seem to add some benefit. This is not much of an answer, so I hope it helps you a little. Regards, Jon > 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 backup these folders in 80GB-portions on the other server > which has > a backup-tape, also with amanda. > Is it possible to backup these files easily with a tar or is an > amanda-backup > necessary? > Or has anybody an other solution or idea? > > Volker > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Large Backup with Amanda
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 backup these folders in 80GB-portions on the other server which has a backup-tape, also with amanda. Is it possible to backup these files easily with a tar or is an amanda-backup necessary? Or has anybody an other solution or idea? Volker ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
