How big are the filesystems that you backup from the
netapp filer ?
If you are happy using TAR for doing Amanda backups on
the Netapp, I'd like to try the same on my backup
host. Since my Netapp is at about 90 Gb usage with one
of the mounted directories close to 50 Gb, backups
using dump/restore fail for the Netapp.

Is the restore process starightforward, while
"amdumping" using the TAR program ?

Ashwin.

--- Frank Smith <fsmith AT hoovers DOT com> wrote:
> --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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