Re: Parameters for Weekly backup

2010-08-27 Thread Ranjan Das
Hi Valeriu, Thank you very much for the guidance. This was very much informative. I have another doubt, as this configuration is for weekly backup and if i start using this config daily what will happen?? Or in the other way, if we schedule daily backups and we dont do it daily and does it at a

Re: Parameters for Weekly backup

2010-08-27 Thread Valeriu Mutu
Hi Ranjan, My reponses are inline. On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:26:03AM +0530, Ranjan Das wrote: Hi Valeriu, Thank you very much for the guidance. This was very much informative. I have another doubt, as this configuration is for weekly backup and if i start using this config daily what will

Re: Parameters for Weekly backup

2010-08-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:54:15AM -0400, Valeriu Mutu wrote: Hi Ranjan, My reponses are inline. On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:26:03AM +0530, Ranjan Das wrote: Hi Valeriu, Thank you very much for the guidance. This was very much informative. I have another doubt, as this configuration

tape selection policy

2010-08-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
Perhaps my memory is slipping, but I recall amanda would use a new tape if it encountered one. I.e. it wouldn't search for the specific tape in the past rotation if it encountered a new tape first. The current release of amanda seems to ignore all new tapes even if there are a hundred new,

lvm snapshots

2010-08-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
I am thinking of backing up some DLEs that are fairly active from a snapshot rather than from the filesystem directly. I looked for documentation on doing this but could find none, nor any HowTo's. Anyone know of any docs on backing up from snapshots? (and the receprocal restore :) Jon -- Jon

Re: tape selection policy

2010-08-27 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Jon, * Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com [20100827 14:05]: Perhaps my memory is slipping, but I recall amanda would use a new tape if it encountered one. I.e. it wouldn't search for the specific tape in the past rotation if it encountered a new tape first. The current release of amanda seems

strange behavior at NFS mounts

2010-08-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
When I have accounts on several machines on the same lan I often NFS mount the remote homedirs under my local home dir. My backups of the local home dir is failing when it encounters the NFS mount dir. It complains permission denied and exits with gnutars status of 2. Amanda then considers this

Re: lvm snapshots

2010-08-27 Thread Brian Cuttler
We are using ZFS snapshots pretty successfully. We are thinking of using UFS snapshots for some systems that don't have the active files on ZFS and could badly use snapshots. Does anyone know how Lotus Notes does on a zfs file system ? Any issues ? Any reason not to migrate it to ZFS ? On

Re: tape selection policy

2010-08-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 02:23:32PM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: Jon, * Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com [20100827 14:05]: Perhaps my memory is slipping, but I recall amanda would use a new tape if it encountered one. I.e. it wouldn't search for the specific tape in the past rotation

Re: tape selection policy

2010-08-27 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Jon LaBadie wrote: Perhaps my memory is slipping, but I recall amanda would use a new tape if it encountered one. I.e. it wouldn't search for the specific tape in the past rotation if it encountered a new tape first. The current release of amanda seems to ignore all new tapes even if there

SV: lvm snapshots

2010-08-27 Thread Gunnarsson, Gunnar
Hi, I'm backing up active filesystem using ufs snapsshot and metaonline/offline for mirrors in Solaris. Hopefully this gives you some ideas how to proceed. define script-tool fssnap-script { comment snapshot wrapper plugin fssnap-script property FSSNAP-WRAPPER

Re: lvm snapshots

2010-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2010 20:11, schrieb Jon LaBadie: I am thinking of backing up some DLEs that are fairly active from a snapshot rather than from the filesystem directly. I looked for documentation on doing this but could find none, nor any HowTo's. Anyone know of any docs on backing up from

Re: SV: lvm snapshots

2010-08-27 Thread Brian Cuttler
Thank you Gunnar, Will see if I can't implement this on my solaris/ufs Lotus Notes server. Brian On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:04:59PM +0200, Gunnarsson, Gunnar wrote: Hi, I'm backing up active filesystem using ufs snapsshot and metaonline/offline for mirrors in Solaris. Hopefully this

Re: lvm snapshots

2010-08-27 Thread Tim Nowaczyk
On Aug 27, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: I am thinking of backing up some DLEs that are fairly active from a snapshot rather than from the filesystem directly. I looked for documentation on doing this but could find none, nor any HowTo's. Anyone know of any docs on backing up from

Re: lvm snapshots

2010-08-27 Thread Brian Cuttler
Jon, I hadn't meant to not answer your question, if you need zfs help I can assist. I did find the application amanda.conf modifications online and I can find the links again for you or extract the relevent sections from my config and post them here. Please let me know if its zfs, else the

Re: lvm snapshots

2010-08-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 03:25:15PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: Jon, I hadn't meant to not answer your question, if you need zfs help I can assist. Thanks Brian, At the moment these are all Linux LVM file systems. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com JG Computing 12027

Virtual Machines - best backup practice

2010-08-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
I have eliminated all dual-boots from my lan. Now the only Windows are running as virtual guests using Virtual Box. Each guest acts as its own network entity, i.e. unique IP, addressable by name from other hosts. Two ways of backing these guest OSs are available, directly as an amanda client,

Re: lvm snapshots

2010-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2010 21:25, schrieb Tim Nowaczyk: I just set the following up in our environment this morning. We'll see how it all goes tonight. http://github.com/marxarelli/amlvm-snapshot looks interesting. I miss an example for how the DLEs should look like ... and I get errors here .. hmm

Re: lvm snapshots

2010-08-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 27.08.2010 23:46, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 27.08.2010 21:25, schrieb Tim Nowaczyk: I just set the following up in our environment this morning. We'll see how it all goes tonight. http://github.com/marxarelli/amlvm-snapshot looks interesting. I miss an example for how the

Re: Virtual Machines - best backup practice

2010-08-27 Thread Christ Schlacta
On 8/27/2010 13:40, Jon LaBadie wrote: I have eliminated all dual-boots from my lan. Now the only Windows are running as virtual guests using Virtual Box. Each guest acts as its own network entity, i.e. unique IP, addressable by name from other hosts. Two ways of backing these guest OSs are

Re: Virtual Machines - best backup practice

2010-08-27 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 03:38:09PM -0700, Christ Schlacta wrote: On 8/27/2010 13:40, Jon LaBadie wrote: I have eliminated all dual-boots from my lan. Now the only Windows are running as virtual guests using Virtual Box. Each guest acts as its own network entity, i.e. unique IP, addressable

Re: Virtual Machines - best backup practice

2010-08-27 Thread Christ Schlacta
On 8/27/2010 19:51, Jon LaBadie wrote: As this is the second suggestion related to ZFS I'll have to say I'm not using ZFS at all. You can æffect a similar solution using linux lvm snapshots if you're using files for virtual disks under the same chriteria, though I don't know about incremental