Re: dealing w/ huge data backups

2005-06-03 Thread Alexander Jolk
Cameron Matheson wrote: many systems should be able to fit on one tape (i'm using hw compression on tapes that hold a little over 100GB w/ no compression). Anyway, the problem now is that i need to back up a system that is 120GB i can split that up no problem (i'm just using tar anyway), bu

Re: dealing w/ huge data backups

2005-06-02 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, June 02, 2005 15:10:51 -0700 Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > --- Frank Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Unless you need something special for the new >> machine (such as a different schedule or odd >> requirements for data retention) it's easiest to >> ju

Re: dealing w/ huge data backups

2005-06-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 02:12:45PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hi, > > my amanda configuration is very simple, but running > smooth. as i continue to add more clients, i'm > starting to wonder what the best way to go about > things are... so far my 'runtapes' parameter is set to > 1. many s

Re: dealing w/ huge data backups

2005-06-02 Thread Frank Smith
--On Thursday, June 02, 2005 14:12:45 -0700 Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > my amanda configuration is very simple, but running > smooth. as i continue to add more clients, i'm > starting to wonder what the best way to go about > things are... so far my 'runtapes' paramete

dealing w/ huge data backups

2005-06-02 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, my amanda configuration is very simple, but running smooth. as i continue to add more clients, i'm starting to wonder what the best way to go about things are... so far my 'runtapes' parameter is set to 1. many systems should be able to fit on one tape (i'm using hw compression on tapes that