Need tech review of new amanda chapter

2006-05-29 Thread Curtis Preston
Hello, Amanda Users!   You may remember the book Unix Backup & Recovery from a few years ago, and the Amanda chapter we had in it.   The chapter has been completely rewritten for the new edition, and I need two tech reviewers who can review it for me.  I’m looking for people that know A

Enough tech reviewers now

2006-05-29 Thread Curtis Preston
I got flooded with requests and have enough tech reviewers now.  Thanks!  

Need access to raw mailing list archives

2008-02-22 Thread Curtis Preston
Hey, folks! It's W. Curtis Preston, the author of Backup & Recovery and the webmaster of www.backupcentral.com. I'd like to add the Amanda-users list to the backup software mailing lists that I support on BackupCentral.com. I added the NetWorker, NetBackup, and TSM lists a year

RE: Backing up VMware-VMs

2008-02-27 Thread Curtis Preston
Powering the system down obviously meets that requirement. --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Steven > Sent: Wednesday

RE: Backing up VMware-VMs

2008-02-27 Thread Curtis Preston
the entire time I'm backing up. A powered off machine does have a state. RAM is empty and the drives are static. They could snapshot that. --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies > > Does anyone know the reason why you ca

RE: Backing up VMware-VMs

2008-02-28 Thread Curtis Preston
ls of consistency (netapp, falconstor that I know of), but the default VMware snapshots are crash consistent, not transactional consistent. --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies > -Original Message- > From: Steven Kur

RE: Backing up VMware-VMs

2008-02-28 Thread Curtis Preston
es not sound like I don't have to worry about the state of my machine while taking a snapshot. --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Be

RE: Backing up VMware-VMs

2008-02-28 Thread Curtis Preston
(i.e. it crashed). Again, they will work 99.9% of the time, but don't expect your application to be happy. It SHOULD recover from a crash, like they're supposed to do, but... --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies > ---