Re: Solaris ACLs
Talking of snapshots, FreeBSD 5.x can do this too with the -L flag to dump. Can someone remind me of how to generate a specific backup type (in amanda.conf) that passes the -L flag to dump on the remote system. Ta -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Jon LaBadie wrote: big snip As Solaris also can do FS snapshots, the OP should be informed of that feature. Not amanda specific, but neat. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.
Re: Solaris ACLs
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 12:33:55AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 06:35:49PM -0600, Frank Smith wrote: Someone on the sage-members list is looking for free backup software that met his listed requirements, and I was about to reply with Amanda, but I wasn't sure about his requirement #5 (below) pertaining to Solaris ACLs. Will Amanda actually do what he wants? ... The man page doesn't mention ACL's, but I suspect it will That was supposed to say ufsdump man page but the internet gremlin deleted the command name :) have to preserve them. Tar/gnutar of course will not. However, if Shilly's 'star' can be made to work, it claims to preserve Solaris ACL's (and not affect atime). If ufsdump is used the normal caveats apply, exclude/include don't work, only entire file systems which must fit on tape, ... As Solaris also can do FS snapshots, the OP should be informed of that feature. Not amanda specific, but neat. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax) End of included message -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
Solaris ACLs
Someone on the sage-members list is looking for free backup software that met his listed requirements, and I was about to reply with Amanda, but I wasn't sure about his requirement #5 (below) pertaining to Solaris ACLs. Will Amanda actually do what he wants? Thanks, Frank I currently work for a large university. We currently have a Very Large tape library system (a walk-in model, terrabites of storage, hundreds of tapes, blah blah blah) We currently have robotics software (unitree) and some interesting home-grown custom jobbies. Unfortunately, they are rather ugly. So I'd like to be able to migrate our backups to something a little more sane, and a little more widely used. Given the amount of data, and number of hosts, and our limited funding for software, getting a license for veritas or legato backup software, etc. is going to be out of the question. So I need a free solution suggested. My ideal backup solution would handle: 1. multiple incoming backup streams, ideally multiplexing then to a single tape or virtual restoral device, for streaming speed purposes, etc. 2a. know about interfacing with unitree directly, OR 2b. be flexible about save all the data to a pseudo-'file' which is actually managed by HSM 3. be able to handle restore requests along the lines of, Give me all the files in directory X, on machine Y, at date YYY/MM/DD:HH/MM/SS and pull in the appropriate files from the last full dump, and all relevant incrementals. And if there was a level0, level2, level3, and level4 dump, and the most recent versions of the file(s) were on level3, it would not have to go through the level0 and level2 dumps to find out the data is not there. 4. it must be able to handle Very Large Filesystems (I'm not sure we have any terrabytes filesystems... Yet. But we probably will have them soon) 5. It should be able to handle restoring Solaris ACLs It is not neccessary to have any kind of non-root-user interface. Restores are handled by the sysadmins only. Of all of the above, I think that everything except #2 is mandatory. Am I dreaming, or is there anything out there for free that can actually handle all of this? -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
Re: Solaris ACLs
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 06:35:49PM -0600, Frank Smith wrote: Someone on the sage-members list is looking for free backup software that met his listed requirements, and I was about to reply with Amanda, but I wasn't sure about his requirement #5 (below) pertaining to Solaris ACLs. Will Amanda actually do what he wants? Thanks, Frank I currently work for a large university. We currently have a Very Large tape library system (a walk-in model, terrabites of storage, hundreds of tapes, blah blah blah) We currently have robotics software (unitree) and some interesting home-grown custom jobbies. Unfortunately, they are rather ugly. So I'd like to be able to migrate our backups to something a little more sane, and a little more widely used. Given the amount of data, and number of hosts, and our limited funding for software, getting a license for veritas or legato backup software, etc. is going to be out of the question. So I need a free solution suggested. My ideal backup solution would handle: 1. multiple incoming backup streams, ideally multiplexing then to a single tape or virtual restoral device, for streaming speed purposes, etc. 2a. know about interfacing with unitree directly, OR 2b. be flexible about save all the data to a pseudo-'file' which is actually managed by HSM 3. be able to handle restore requests along the lines of, Give me all the files in directory X, on machine Y, at date YYY/MM/DD:HH/MM/SS and pull in the appropriate files from the last full dump, and all relevant incrementals. And if there was a level0, level2, level3, and level4 dump, and the most recent versions of the file(s) were on level3, it would not have to go through the level0 and level2 dumps to find out the data is not there. 4. it must be able to handle Very Large Filesystems (I'm not sure we have any terrabytes filesystems... Yet. But we probably will have them soon) 5. It should be able to handle restoring Solaris ACLs It is not neccessary to have any kind of non-root-user interface. Restores are handled by the sysadmins only. Of all of the above, I think that everything except #2 is mandatory. Am I dreaming, or is there anything out there for free that can actually handle all of this? The man page doesn't mention ACL's, but I suspect it will have to preserve them. Tar/gnutar of course will not. However, if Shilly's 'star' can be made to work, it claims to preserve Solaris ACL's (and not affect atime). If ufsdump is used the normal caveats apply, exclude/include don't work, only entire file systems which must fit on tape, ... As Solaris also can do FS snapshots, the OP should be informed of that feature. Not amanda specific, but neat. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road(609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
