I've just installed Amanda server and client and successfully tested
that it's working. Now I want to start creating my production
environment and have some questions. I don't think what I want to do
is unique and hopefully someone can point to documentation explaining
it.
My set up includes a 1 TB drive as the back up device. I have five
such drives which I want to rotate every 3 months. A complete cycle
would be done in 15 months.
My questions are:
1. I'm assuming each drive would be a set, is that correct?
Something like daily-quarter1, daily-quarter2, etc. How do avoid
duplicating the configurations for these sets, since they're identical?
2. The slots I've created on the hard drive are 25 (I'm just
following an example). Do I need more slots for the capacity of the
drive, or will these slots be reused?
3. Eventually these sets will begin to be overwritten when the 5
quarter (15 month) cycle is completed. How do I reclaim a set to
start new backups to it?
4. I want to filter files like sockets, logs, media files, etc.
Where are filters defined? (I'm hoping it's on the server.)
Those are my questions.
Thank you for your time and attention,
Jose
