Hello all. I've been using amanda to do all our backups for more than a
year now and love it. I'm writing to hear what the list has to say about
using amanda to backup a significant amount of data via an NFS mount.
Background: I'm looking at deploying a SNAP! server or other such NAS
device for internal network drive use. I would have roughly 100GB of
data mounted to one of my Linux boxen via NFS off the snap server. I
imagine that the incrementals would only be grabbing a few hundered
megs, but obviously level0 backup of 100+G is significant!
The box running the amanda server is an Athlon 700/256MB RAM/HP DLT1
40/80GB tapes/U160 Adaptec SCSI adaptor. I currently have the holding
disk on the IDE chain, and realize that alone is a potential bottleneck.
RedHat 7.1 (2.4.2-2 No 2 gig filesize limits!!)
So the question is, how well does amanda, or more specifically dump/tar
handle a backup of this type. The wire speed is 100MB Full duplex. I'm
really trying to get a feel for how much of a headache this will
potentially be, and am hoping that some of you are doing similair things
that might provide me with a metric for this project. I haven't
purchased the SNAP box yet, and won't if the response is that this is
not feasable.
TIA to all responders.
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