Thanks again!

Last question before I get into exprementing with Amanda :)

How does Amanda handle shares on remote machines? Do I have
to NFS mount remote shares before amdump is called? Or Amanda
handle by itself?

..Rohit

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon LaBadie" <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: Setup


> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:28:21AM +0530, Rohit wrote:
> > Thanks guys for all your responses. I really appreciate it. Also, is
there
> > any good How-To available to get me started
> > on this?
>
> When you download the source see the "docs" directory.
>
> >
> > Couple of doubts though..How does Amanda differentiate between
> > FULL and Incremental backups? What exactly FULL and
> > INC mean?
>
> Full, aka level 0, is every file and directory.  Incrementals also
> have levels, 1-9.  An incremental of level X is all files changed
> since the last lower level backup.
>
> >
> > Does it mean that Amanda will do FULL/INC backup of one or
> > more shares specified on the servers based on its internal
> > logic?
>
> Here is a sample of a portion of my "amoverview" of recent backups.
> You can see the levels it choose, errors (system down, network troubles)
> and some "disklist entries" (DLE's) that I have specified never do
> incrementals so there are blanks.  I nominally have a dumpcycle
> (time between level 0's) of 1 week and do backups 6 times a week.
>
>
>        date             09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 10 10
> host   disk             18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 01 02
>
> butch  /                 0  2  3     0  1  1  1  1  1     0  0  1  2
> butch  //tec/C           0  1  1     E  E  E  E  E  E     E  E  E  E
> butch  //tec/D           1  1  0     E  E  E  E  E  E     E  E  E  E
> butch  //tec/E           0  1  1     E  E  E  E  E  E     E  E  E  E
> butch  /export           1  2  0     1  1  2  0  1  1     0  0  0  1
> butch  /images           E  E  E     E  E  E  0                    0
> butch  /opt              1  2  2     E  0  1  1  0  1     1  1  0  1
> butch  /u                0  1  1     0  1  E  E  0  1     1  1  0  1
> butch  /u2               2  3  4     4  0  1  0  1  1     1  1  1  0
> butch  //winnie/C        1  1  0     1  1  1  0  1  1     0  0  0  1
> butch  //winnie/D        1  1  E     E  1  1  0  1  1     1  1  E  0
> butch  //winnie/E        0  1  1     0  1  0  1  1  1     0  1  1  1
> butch  //winnie/F        0  1  1     0  1  1  1  1  1     0  1  0  1
> butch  /var              0  2  2     0  1  1  1  0  1     1  0  0  1
> butch  /w                0  1  1     0  1  1  1  2  2     0  0  0  1
> butch  /w/InstalledPkg   0  1  1     0  1  1  1  1  1     0  0  1  1
> butch  /w/Packages       0  1  1     0  1  1  1  1  1     0  0  0  1
> butch  /w/tape8          2  0  1     E  1  1  0  1  1     0  1  1  0
> butch  /w2               0  1  1     0  1  2  E  2  0     1  1  1  2
> butch  StaticFS-1        0                    0                    0
>
> Can you tell when "tec" went offline?  That is my laptop and I took
> it with me to the SunNetwork conference.
>
> >
> > 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?
>
> You tell us, we already like it.
>
> -- 
> Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
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