--On Thursday, June 12, 2003 14:41:13 -0700 Ashwin Kotian <ashwin_jk AT yahoo
DOT com> wrote:
> Are you saying that you are able to successfully
> backup the Netapp without using the modified dump
> program & using Amanda version earlier than 2.4.4 ?
I's still running 2.4.2p2 and use GNU tar to back up
subdirectories since the filer volumes are larger than
a tape, and some of the directories are not worth backing
up at all (temp space, web caches, duplicated data, etc.)
> If you are successfully able to do so, can you send me
> your disklist for the Netapp part so that I can
> compare with mine ?
Nothing special, just entries like:
amanda1.hoovers.com /mnt/filer/home/lib high-tar
amanda1.hoovers.com /mnt/filer/home/local high-tar
>
> The modified dump program for Netapp works fine for
> smaller directories. But I'm using DDS4 tapes (20Gb
> uncompressed) & my filesystem on the Netapp is about
> 90 Gb, so usually backups for the directories on the
> Netapp that are greater than 20 Gb fail.
I use tar, subdirectories, and exclude lists to make
reasonably-sized pieces to backup.
Frank
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ashwin.
>
> --- Frank Smith <fsmith AT hoovers DOT com> wrote:
>> --On Thursday, June 12, 2003 14:56:18 -0600 George
>> Kelbley <kelbley AT cs.unm DOT edu> wrote:
>>
>> > I may be missing something simple here, but, we
>> want to back up a
>> > Network Appliance using amanda. 2.4.4 seems to
>> have patches to collect
>> > the correct size, and I installed the perl scripts
>> and dump program that
>> > I found at
>> www.xs4all.nl/~johnpc/amanda-netapp-dump-0.1/, but
>> the dump
>> > script exits with "cannot handle dump", and I
>> think its because it
>> > doesn't like the 'S' argument its getting from
>> amanda.
>> >
>> > Since the 2.4.4 code has been patched for a
>> NetApp, I'm assuming someone
>> > is actually using it?
>>
>> Never tried the ndmp stuff since I started using
>> Amanda before it was
>> included, so I NFS-mounted the NetApp filesystems on
>> the backup server
>> and treat them as local disks. Probably not quite
>> as fast, especially
>> if you do client-compress and don't have a lot of
>> CPU on the server, but
>> it works.
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>
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>> fsmith AT hoovers DOT com
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