At this point, tape management isn't much of a problem. But the more I read and configure in Amanda, the more I get swayed to having an Amanda server with clients everywhere else.
Interesting on how they see the "backup" world. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/08/05 2:04 PM >>> On Jun 7, 2005, at 12:54 PM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: > I'm reading up on Amanda, well, currently some old documentation > (SG246299 Linux on IBM eserver zSeries and S/390 ISP/ASP Solutions). > > Using Amanda in a traditional network world, Amanda would be > running on > a server with tape drives and the clients will be running on other > images and the backups are taken over the network. Sure, saves on > tape > drives. > > But on a mainframe, each image can own the tape drives. > > I'm wondering (pros and cons) if anyone has made every Linux image, an > Amanda server and just back up its self. No network envolved. It > seems > like it would be more efficient, but then....I think there would be a > lot of unknowns of how things work when you actually need something > restored (or your image rebuilt). > > Or maybe Amanda just won't run this way. > It'd run fine, except.... a) how do you ensure that the tape drive is actually attached to the right guest? b) how do you manage your tape catalogue? Amanda would want one tape set per instance in this case. How do you get the RIGHT tape loaded into the right drive when Amanda needs it? We've actually solved a lot of this problem using Bacula rather than Amanda, by building a little tape server app that talks to VM and asks it to do the tape manipulation. Under Amanda, you could do it with HSM and NFS-exported managed storage, but you still have the problem of needing to dedicate fake- tape space to each guest. Basically, it's not a backup problem, it's a tape management problem, in your scenario. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
