Re: Multiple backup groups (explained)

2003-06-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 at 4:58pm, Daniel Bentley wrote > Groups A, B, and C are collections of samba shares on individual desktops. > As things stand, A, B, and C are defined by the current backup scripts so > that they equal right around 10G each. A total of 30G to be backed up. > It needs to b

Re: Multiple backup groups (explained)

2003-06-10 Thread tobias . bluhm
How about running it the other way around? If you're using win2k/xp, use the native windows ntbackup.exe to write it out to file on disk. Setup a samba server with enough disk & share out to the target machines only. Schedule the target machines to run ntbackup to the samba share. On my p3 1ghz

RE: Multiple backup groups

2003-06-09 Thread Derek Suzuki
003 3:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Multiple backup groups > > > Incremental backups are at the file level, like Gnutar > (exactly like Gnutar, > if that's the program you're using for backups.) > > AFAIK, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Informix, MSSQL

RE: Multiple backup groups (explained)

2003-06-09 Thread Bort, Paul
[snip] > Now, is there a way to do something like this with Amanda, a > way to define > set groups like this via different configs and share the same pool of > tapes? Is there a way where I can indeed tell Amanda '30G of > people to > backup, do only 10G a day, but make sure every one is back

RE: Multiple backup groups

2003-06-09 Thread Bort, Paul
where, especially on the big magnet we call planet Earth. Might want to plan other storage systems if you really need "permanent". > -Original Message- > From: Derek Suzuki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 5:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

RE: Multiple backup groups

2003-06-09 Thread Derek Suzuki
I'd still have to force the archival backups (which are meant to be taken offsite permanently) to include a level 0 dump of every target. > -Original Message- > From: Bort, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 2:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > S

RE: Multiple backup groups

2003-06-09 Thread Bort, Paul
> > > The problem with the offsite is that I want it to > include everything > from both the daily and the weekly database backups. So the Right, so if you put both disklist entries in the same AMANDA configuration, and rotate a week's worth of tapes off-site, you're covered. You do hav

RE: Multiple backup groups

2003-06-09 Thread Derek Suzuki
day. > -Original Message- > From: Bort, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 2:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Multiple backup groups > > > Offsite backups are easy: > > $ amadmin YourConfig SomeTape no-reuse > >

RE: Multiple backup groups

2003-06-09 Thread Bort, Paul
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Multiple backup groups > > [snip] > one rotation. And it would be nice to have multiple media sets per > configuration so that offsite and GFS-style backups could be > handled with > minimal effort. >

RE: Multiple backup groups

2003-06-09 Thread Derek Suzuki
ation so that offsite and GFS-style backups could be handled with minimal effort. > -Original Message- > From: Joshua Baker-LePain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 1:03 PM > To: Daniel Bentley > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Multiple backup

Re: Multiple backup groups

2003-06-09 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 at 1:49pm, Daniel Bentley wrote > I'm fairly new to Amanda, having set up hardware configurations, some > small test backups (including some samba mounts), and generally getting > things ready for a full transfer over to Amanda (getting away from a bunch > of custom-made scri