Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
On 14/08/09, Frank Smith (fsm...@hoovers.com) wrote:
Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Amanda will do the compression for you. You define it in the dumptype in
amanda.conf. If you have a holding disk, then it will compress the data
as it goes onto the holding disk.
I wouldn't put the holding disks in raid.
Hu hu... Interesting... I have a 4 disks RAID-0 holding disk, and it isn't
fast... I always wondered if I should use seperated (non-RAID) drives...
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On Monday 17 August 2009, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
I wouldn't put the holding disks in raid.
Hu hu... Interesting... I have a 4 disks RAID-0 holding disk, and it isn't
fast... I always wondered if I should use seperated (non-RAID) drives...
Its been my observation that software raids are slower.
On Monday 17 August 2009, Cyrille Bollu wrote:
I wouldn't put the holding disks in raid.
Hu hu... Interesting... I have a 4 disks RAID-0 holding disk, and it
isn't fast... I always wondered if I should use seperated (non-RAID)
drives...
To drive an LTO-4 your holding disk needs to read
Cyrille Bollu wrote:
Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
I wouldn't put the holding disks in raid.
Hu hu... Interesting... I have a 4 disks RAID-0 holding disk, and it
isn't fast... I always wondered if I should use seperated (non-RAID)
drives...
Here is an extremely interesting article that everyone
On 17/08/09, Chris Hoogendyk (hoogen...@bio.umass.edu) wrote:
Cyrille Bollu wrote:
Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
I wouldn't put the holding disks in raid.
snip
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=484.
While this guy is looking at things like database servers and
exchange, we ought to be able to
On 14/08/09, Frank Smith (fsm...@hoovers.com) wrote:
Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Amanda will do the compression for you. You define it in the dumptype in
amanda.conf. If you have a holding disk, then it will compress the data
as it goes onto the holding disk. If you don't have a holding disk,
Hi Chris
On 13/08/09, Chris Hoogendyk (hoogen...@bio.umass.edu) wrote:
... the solution is akin to the Japanese monks caring for Bonzai
I liked this idea about tape archives -- constant pruning and
maintenance. Difficult to sell though.
As for your specific questions:
You should be
Hi,
Here's my (very) small personnal experience:
A few years ago, when I tried it, I couldn't enable server-side software
compression while bypassing the holding disk with my IBM ULTIUM LTO-3
drive: Tape speed was sinking to about 5MB/s.
My backup server was a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with 4 Intel
Cyrille Bollu wrote:
Here's my (very) small personnal experience:
A few years ago, when I tried it, I couldn't enable server-side
software compression while bypassing the holding disk with my IBM
ULTIUM LTO-3 drive: Tape speed was sinking to about 5MB/s.
My backup server was a Dell
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
Hi Chris
On 13/08/09, Chris Hoogendyk (hoogen...@bio.umass.edu) wrote:
snip
Typically, we set up Amanda with holding disk space.
snip
If all the storage is locally attached (actually, AoE drives storage
units connected over Ethernet), I am hoping to avoid
Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
Hi Chris
On 13/08/09, Chris Hoogendyk (hoogen...@bio.umass.edu) wrote:
snip
Typically, we set up Amanda with holding disk space.
snip
If all the storage is locally attached (actually, AoE drives storage
units connected over
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:08:03 -0400
Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 06:17:17PM -0400, rorycl wrote:
So maybe you should provide a complete OS distribution, including the
backup software. Like a customized version of one of the live CD
releases of Linux. But
On 13/08/09, Charles Curley (charlescur...@charlescurley.com) wrote:
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:08:03 -0400
Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 06:17:17PM -0400, rorycl wrote:
So maybe you should provide a complete OS distribution, including the
backup software. Like a
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
On 13/08/09, Charles Curley (charlescur...@charlescurley.com) wrote:
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:08:03 -0400
Jon LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 06:17:17PM -0400, rorycl wrote:
So maybe you should provide a complete OS distribution,
I'm going to cross-post this text on the Amanda and Bacula lists.
Apologies in advance if you see this twice.
Our company is about to provide centralised backups for several pools of
backup data of between 1 and 15TB in size. Each pool changes daily but
backups to tape will only occur once a
rorycl wrote:
An important aspect of the system is that the tapes should be readable
for 12 years, by other parties if necessary. From this point of view we
like the idea of providing a CD with each tape set of the software
needed to extract the contents, together with a listing of the
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:17:17 -0400
rorycl amanda-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:
An important aspect of the system is that the tapes should be readable
for 12 years, by other parties if necessary. From this point of view
we like the idea of providing a CD with each tape set of the software
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 06:17:17PM -0400, rorycl wrote:
I'm going to cross-post this text on the Amanda and Bacula lists.
Apologies in advance if you see this twice.
Our company is about to provide centralised backups for several pools of
backup data of between 1 and 15TB in size. Each
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