>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:31:42 -0800 (PST)
>From: Nate Eldredge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Can Amanda be used to backup an NFS mounted filesystem ? I have a
>> Network Appliance
>> box and have mounted the exported filesystem to a mount point on the
>> Amanda server
>> The Sun is running Solaris 7.
>Yes, it's working fine here. You just have to use tar. Obviously you
>can't use dump, because you don't have access to the raw disk (and even if
>you did, Solaris wouldn't have any idea what to do with it).
Indeed. :-}
>Another hint: If you have snapshots enabled, you will probably want to
>exclude them (amanda documentation explains how to exclude directories).
Alternatively, you might want to create a snapshot for the purpose and
back up (only) that. (A NetApp "snapshot" is read-only for the lifetime
of the snapshot, so things won't be changing out from under it.) Then
you can delete the snapsht when you're done, or queue it for deletion,
depending on local policies.
Also, to address the concern that someone else had, it is possible to
provide a NetApp Filer with an additional NIC; if you do the backups via
that (dedicated) NIC, it's likely to significantly reduce the impact
of the backups on your "regular" net(s), quite possibly to the point
that no one will notice when the backups are being done. :-}
Cheers,
david
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