Thanks guys for all your responses. I really appreciate it. Also, is there
any good How-To available to get me started
on this?
Couple of doubts though..How does Amanda differentiate between
FULL and Incremental backups? What exactly FULL and
INC mean?
Does it mean that Amanda will do FULL/INC backup of one or
more shares specified on the servers based on its internal
logic?
The problem I have is this:
I have a share on my NT server which houses users home
directories aka (Z:) drive and all users outlook express
mails and profiles are stored in their Z: drive in a
specific direcory.
Using my custom scripts, I used to do FULL backups of users
email directory (stored in their Z: drive) once in a week
and do incrementals 3 days in a week.
Ditto for backing up their profiles stored on Z: drive.
But as of backing up linux servers go, I do either full or
incremental for all the shares (and not directories within
it)
Will Amanda able to do this? Or better?
Thanks again!
Rohit
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon LaBadie" <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 2:28 AM
Subject: Re: Setup
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:07:30AM +0530, Rohit Peyyeti wrote:
> > Hello All:
> >
> > I have machines on my network which are mix of windows and unix
machines.
> > Right now, I'm managing backups (both full and incremental) through perl
> > scripts written by me. They have been working fine for quite some time
now
> > but are due for upgrade. I was planning to rewrite those scripts to make
it
> > more effecient.
> >
> > Recently somebody suggested me to take a look at amanda. I looks really
neat
> > and cool to me. I have some doubts though (if it will work in my kind of
> > setup) I will try to explain about my setup below:
> >
> > I have couple of linux servers and windows servers. I have indentified
what
> > shares on those servers which needs to be backed up. I will be needing
one
> > FULL backup for linux servers and another FULL for windows per week and
I
> > should also be able to run daily incremental backups for both windows
and
> > linux machines. FULL backups usually run into 15 GB and incremental
close to
> > 500 to 1 GB. Right now, I do some backups in the night and some in the
> > mornings (data is first written to some temp space where I pick it in
the
> > mornings to write to the tape)
> >
> > What I have is HP Tape drive (12/24) (without autoloader facility). Is
this
> > kind of setup possible with Amanda? If yes, how do I go about setting it
up?
>
> General answer is yes.
>
> Couple of things however. There are several ways to backup
> pc shares with amanda. Perhaps the simplest, particularly if
> you already have it setup, is samba. However with most of the
> techniques the special permissions, i.e. those not on unix/linux
> are not retained. Also, some things can't be backed up by
> samba, eg. Sys Vol Info, registry, ... So we are mostly talking
> about user data files and possibly apps, ...
>
> Second is the scheduling algorithm of amanda. It is designed
> to try to level out the amount of each daily backup. You give
> amanda a list of host/file-systems and samba-host/pc-host/shares
> and you tell amanda how often you want a full backup. Note,
> you do not tell it when, just how often. Then during each days
> backup, amanda selects some entries from your list for full
> backups and does the others as incrementals. This lets you
> maintain backups of large amounts of disk data on small tapes
> and on no particular day do your backups run for 20 hours.
> You could probably handle 100-140 GB of actual disk data on
> your tapes with a 1 week "dumpcycle".
>
> --
> Jon H. LaBadie jon AT jgcomp DOT com
> JG Computing
> 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159
> Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
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