Forget about "all fulls on weekend, incrementals weekdays"
Check your index files for Big Numbers.
Make sure you can do a restore.
Use Amanda in parallel with your existing backups until you are
comfortable with your ability to restore your data.
Frank
--On Wednesday, February 06, 2002 16:26:44 -0500 "Bort, Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 1. REBDA (Read Everything Before Doing Anything)
>
> 2. Be prepared to run the configure/install process a few times until you
> get it the way you want.
>
> 3. Remember to do both the server setup and client setup on the server.
>
> 4. Start by just backing up the backup server.
>
> 5. Start by changing tapes by hand. Add the changer once all the clients are
> working.
>
> 6. /tmp/amanda/*debug
>
> 7. Yes it's a complex install, but the reward is industrial-strength
> cross-platform backup and restore that you can hack to your specifications.
> (No Backup Exec bitterness here, no.)
>
> 8. Build your own. Whoever made the RPM or DEB didn't have your network in
> mind.
>
> Any other suggestions from the list?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: W. D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 4:03 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Cc: KEVIN ZEMBOWER
>> Subject: Re: Amanda install reality check
>>
>>
>> Any hints, tips or gotchas that would be helpful for the
>> 'uninitiated'? (Especially FreeBSD & HP SureStore DAT 40)
>>
>> At 14:09 2/6/2002, KEVIN ZEMBOWER, wrote:
>> > For-what-it's-worth dept.: In the year that I've been a
>> full-time Unix
>> > system administrator, I guess I've installed 40-50 different
>> packages,
>> > mostly from source. Amanda was the second most time-consuming and
>> > difficult; only Xwindows was harder for me.
>> >
>> > -Kevin Zembower
>> >
>> > -----
>> > E. Kevin Zembower
>> > Unix Administrator
>> > Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs
>> > 111 Market Place, Suite 310
>> > Baltimore, MD 21202
>> > 410-659-6139
>> >
>> >>>> gene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/06/02 01:49PM >>>
>> > <snip>
>> > I seem to be really struggling to get this to work. I did think it
>> > would
>> > be easier than this ;-)
>> > </snip>
>> > Gene
>>
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