Are there any applications adds on being developed ? We have a need to do some selective archiving e.g. copies of selective 0 dumps with or without indexes.
-- GG -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org [mailto:owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org] För Dustin J. Mitchell Skickat: den 7 juli 2009 22:03 Till: Andreas Kuntzagk Kopia: amanda-users@amanda.org Ämne: Re: is amanda the right solution On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Andreas Kuntzagk<andreas.kuntz...@mdc-berlin.de> wrote: > we have some genome sequencers which produce lots of data. ATM these > are stored on 2 big Solaris Fileservers (~34TB each) but in the long > term we want to move these to some kind of archive. One idea is to bye > a second tape library (we already have one SL24) and write these > datasets to tapes. Since these datasets can span more then one tape > (upto 3.5 TB) just using tar or dump is not the solution (at least I'm not > aware how to do this). > So can I use amanda for this? I found something about long-term > archiving in the faq but it is not to elaborate. I'm surprised nobody wanted to answer this. Amanda is really designed around the idea of repeatedly backing up the same data, rather than doing one-off dumps. Folks certainly have cajoled Amanda into doing what you describe, through manual configuration (editing the disklist all the time). If you're feeling more motivated, we're to the point where Amanda has the tools to do this sort of thing for you -- with a bit of Perl and some studying of the Amanda::* POD, you could write an application that takes a stream as input (say, a tarball) and write it to tape: tar -czf - /my/sequences | write-to-tapes SequenceBackupou working and still use the usual Amanda recovery tools to read that data (amfetchdump, probably -- amrecover would be useless since there are no indices, but I doubt you need indices). If you're interested in working on a script like this, I'll be happy to help. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
