Re: Backup device for Amanda

[Pavel Pragin]

Hello,
As long as the OS detects the devices amanda will be able to use them. 
An easy way to see whether the devices were detected by the system is to
look at the /proc/scsi/scsi file after the devices are connected and the 
system is rebooted.

Pavel

Yogesh Hasabnis wrote:


Hi All,

I am trying to figure out a proper backup strategy for our setup, 
using Amanda as the backup tool. We have roughly 20 Linux/Windows 
dual-boot machines and one file server with "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
ES release 3" as the OS. To keep the backup procedure simple, we plan 
to keep all the "critical" data on this file server and only back up 
the data directories on this file server (No other machine would be 
backed up). The data to be backed up is currently roughly 100GB and 
may increase to more than 250GB in the next one year. I am trying to 
identify the proper backup devices/media for this requirement. The 
backup devices I am evaluating are

1. HP Ultrium 448 Tape Drive
2. HP DLT VS160 Tape Drive
3. HP SDLT 320
4. HP SDLT 600

I would like to know whether these backup devices are fully compatible 
with Amanda. Does anybody on this list use these backup devices in 
his/her setup ? Suggestions for any other suitable backup device are 
also welcome.


Thanks In Advance

Yogesh


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Re: Backup device for Amanda

[Jon LaBadie]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 04:27:09AM -0700, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
>  I am trying to figure out a proper backup strategy for our setup, using 
> Amanda as the backup tool. We have roughly 20 Linux/Windows dual-boot 
> machines and one file server with "Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3" as 
> the OS. To keep the backup procedure simple, we plan to keep all the 
> "critical" data on this file server and only back up the data directories on 
> this file server (No other machine would be backed up). The data to be backed 
> up is currently roughly 100GB and may increase to more than 250GB in the next 
> one year. I am trying to identify the proper backup devices/media for this 
> requirement. The backup devices I am evaluating are
>  1. HP Ultrium 448 Tape Drive
>  2. HP DLT VS160 Tape Drive
>  3. HP SDLT 320
>  4. HP SDLT 600
>  
>  I would like to know whether these backup devices are fully compatible with 
> Amanda. Does anybody on this list use these backup devices in his/her setup ? 

short answers, yes and yes.


longer answer, if your OS and system tools (mt, mtx, dd, tar, etc.)
work with your drive, amanda will as amanda does not use its own drivers.


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Re: Backup device for Amanda

[Tom Brown]

> The backup devices I am

evaluating are
1. HP Ultrium 448 Tape Drive
2. HP DLT VS160 Tape Drive
3. HP SDLT 320
4. HP SDLT 600

I would like to know whether these backup devices are fully compatible 
with Amanda. Does anybody on this list use these backup devices in 
his/her setup ? Suggestions for any other suitable backup device are 
also welcome.


amanda does not really care about your backup device, be it a tape 
drive, removable media or even local disks. As long as your OS can see 
and write to the drive (and control the robot if you have one) then you 
should be set.


Personally i have used amanda with dds3,dds4,LTO, LTO2 and LTO3 tape 
drives and robots from HP and Dell without issue using MTX to control 
the robot. My amanda servers have allways been linux from RH7.3 upto 
CentOS4.3


hope that helps some

Backup device for Amanda

[Yogesh Hasabnis]

Hi All,  I am trying to figure out a proper backup strategy for our setup, using Amanda as the backup tool. We have roughly 20 Linux/Windows dual-boot machines and one file server with "Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3" as the OS. To keep the backup procedure simple, we plan to keep all the "critical" data on this file server and only back up the data directories on this file server (No other machine would be backed up). The data to be backed up is currently roughly 100GB and may increase to more than 250GB in the next one year. I am trying to identify the proper backup devices/media for this requirement. The backup devices I am evaluating are 1. HP Ultrium 448 Tape Drive 2. HP DLT VS160 Tape Drive 3. HP SDLT 320 4. HP SDLT 600  I would like to know whether these backup devices are fully compatible with Amanda. Does anybody on this list use these backup devices in his/her setup ? Suggestions for any other suitable backup device are also
 welcome.  Thanks In Advance  Yogesh  
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