-- I'm trying to figure out how to best configure Amanda to handle backing up the 10 - 15 servers and workstations I need regular backups of. I figure it's just that I'm having a hard time getting into an Amanda mindset. Clarifications are appreciated.
I have 10 - 15 machines: big servers, small servers, workstations, master node for a cluster, etc. I want to do fairly regular fulls of these (every two weeks?) and nightly incrementals when fulls aren't being performed. I have a Qualstar TLS-6110, which stores 10 tapes. My initial thought was to have several different configurations, and do a full with each configuration once every two weeks, then an incremental or two with each configuration every few nights. It seems to me, though, that the way Amanda is best set up is to have one giant configuration with every single machine and disk in there, and let it do a full once per dumpcycle, then handle the incrementals of all machines on a nightly basis. Is my understanding of this correct? And if so, why is it preferrable to have one giant config with every machine in it instead of a number of configurations broken down by logical machine groupings? Thanks in advance, Jenn .-------------------------------------------------------. |Jennifer Sturm | |System Administrator and Research Support Specialist | |Chemistry Department | |Hamilton College | | | |[EMAIL PROTECTED] | |315-859-4745 | |www.chem.hamilton.edu | .-------------------------------------------------------. |"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, | | and a dark side, and it holds the universe together." | | -Carl Zwanzig | | | | | |"One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things| | go, and duct tape to make them stop. " | | -G. Weilacher | .-------------------------------------------------------.
