On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 11:14, Dave Sherohman wrote:
2) Send a full tapecycle's worth of tapes offsite.
I'd like to make a slight technical correction here-- I believe it
should be a full dumpcycle's worth of tapes, as the tapecycle is the
total number of tapes in rotation. Taking all your tapes
Mark Le Noury wrote:
I have set up amanda and it is running fine I was using it to do a
full dump of 3 fileservers every night. We are using an autoloader and
the dump was running across 4 tapes and taking 15 hours to do.
We then decided it would be better to start incrementally dumping the
things though.
Thanks,
Mark
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Bijnens
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 12:26 PM
To: Mark Le Noury
Cc: Amanda
Subject: Re: configuration question
Mark Le Noury wrote:
I have set up amanda
work for you?
Mike
--
Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld
-Original Message-
From: Mark Le Noury [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Amanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed Sep 10 06:48:35 2003
Subject: RE: configuration question
Hi Paul,
I guess I wanted it to do full
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:48:35PM +0200, Mark Le Noury wrote:
I guess I wanted it to do full backups on the Saturday just for ease of
administration. That way I would know exactly which tapes the full dumps
were on and I could send them to storage accordingly.
There are two common ways of
Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:48:35PM +0200, Mark Le Noury wrote:
I'm just a bit worried, for example, that the full dump for 1 disk
on 1 server gets done on a Monday, while the full dump for another
disk on another server gets done on a Tuesday etc.
Why does this worry you?
Paul Bijnens wrote:
Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:48:35PM +0200, Mark Le Noury wrote:
I'm just a bit worried, for example, that the full dump for 1 disk
on 1 server gets done on a Monday, while the full dump for another
disk on another server gets done on a Tuesday etc.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:24:24AM -0700, bao wrote:
But for networks where restoring occurs once in a while, tape management
is a tedious task.
All the more reason to let amanda do it for you.
I'm just an intern,
and the company's plan is to have a set-up that is easy that anyone
can do.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:24:24AM -0700, bao wrote:
For networks where there
is a full-time backup admin, letting Amanda spread out the level 0's
seems simpler. Restoration is what the admin
does most often, and (s)he should have mastered it.
As I mentioned earlier, amanda works great for
Would it be feasable to do one of the following two things:
Keep the the old files in a diferent directory and only backup certain
directories. Or possable gzip the old ones so that they arent so large. I
usually find that gzip will compress dumped database files to 10x smaller
than they were.
10 matches
Mail list logo
