On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 20:36:20 +0100 Gour <g...@atmarama.net> wrote: > > Amanda does not address bare metal recovery. I, however, do. > > http://www.charlescurley.com/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.html. > > > > Nice article.
Thanks > > > Also, with virtual tapes (vtapes in Amandaese), the question is > > meaningless. It is the total space available in the partition that > > is critical, not the "available space" on each vtape. > > So, I can create as many vtapes as I like and then dump those to the > tape and they can span many tapes if required? Nope. You leave virtual tapes on the hard drive. You don't bother with tapes at all. Everything is in a file on hard drive, so you can use the usual file handling tools to copy them around, e.g. for off-site backups. Oh, and something I missed earlier: you can span tapes. (Defined as sending one backup to more than one tape.) You set a configuration value to the maximum number of tapes to span. E.g.: I allow two. Most of the time Amanda uses one. However I have a few large DLEs. Those span two tapes when they get a full backup. It works just fine on vtapes. With physical tapes, you would need a changer or a human attendant. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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