Gene Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I hope this isn't considered off topic. I have been running amanda now > for a month or so and all is going well (thanks to alot of help from > this list!). > > My tape server is a Sun E250 (Solaris 8) with a single DDS-4 tape > drive. I'm backing up approximately 15 clients (mostly solaris 8 /linux > - RH7.2) with three windows boxes. The last windows box I added is > taking me over the limit. It has 4 large partitions, the largest of > which can't ever seem to fit on the tape with everything else when it > does a level 0 dump. > > I don't really want to go the manual changer route since the backups are > cron'd and nobody is around in the middle of the night to change tapes. > > I'm starting to look at another tape drive solution and leaning towards > DLT. I've seen references to AIT-2/AIT-3 also; I'm not sure what that > is. I'm not up on my tape technology I guess. > > I'm thinking of a DLT stacker or maybe a low end DLT tape library. Does > anyone have any recommendations that they know works well with Amanda? > There seems to be plenty of h/w to choose from based upon my web > searches and looking at vendor sites, but I don't want to purchase > something that isn't going to work with Amanda. > > I couldn't find any info like this in the FAQ and my search of the > archives didn't turn up anything either. > > All input very much appreciated! > > Thanks, > > Gene
Gene, Don't spend money too fast. So you're saying that the compressed size of your biggest disklist entry is over 20 GB on a level 0? In this case you could make different disklist entries for all sub directories, creating new, (hidden $) shares (just for backup). This works best if the subdir's are somehow constant and no new sibblings are created. E. g. if you did backup \\nt\c$ , you could backup \\nt\c$\winnt , \\nt\c$\programms, etc. Or are you just getting "out of tape" errors? Amanda will balance the backup levels for you over time. So after a few cycles the tape with a level 0 of \\nt (current configuration) will have (high numbered) incrementals of all other partitions. You could increase "dumpcycle". HTH, Johannes Nieß
