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Re: NFS mount as second holding disk
2003-10-23 22:25:23
Thanks to everyone who responded.
My Amanda server is RH9 using the 2.4.3 amanda packages included with the
distribution (head hung in shame after reading a couple of days of
posts...). One client box is RH 7.3 with the 2.4.2 rh packages, one is RH9
with the 2.4.3 rh packages and the remaining boxes (to be added to the
disklist later) are RH 9 as well. The largest partition I'm trying to
backup is actually an SMB mount on a Windows 2000 server.
I've stuck with hardware compression so far because all of these boxes are
pretty old and slow (I've borrowed a Compaq SDLT220 tape drive for testing
purposes while I try to get the nearly $5,000 purchase approved- the tape
unit will be the most valuable piece of the whole setup!).
I knew that an NFS mount couldn't be backed up with dump- I wasn't sure how
an NFS holding disk would factor in. I take it that tar is the preferred
backup method for ext3 filesystems? My initial config used dump on the
non-SMB partitions, but I can quickly change over to tar.
At 07:35 PM 10/23/2003, you wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 07:53:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 23 October 2003 09:32, Dan Willis wrote:
> >Hello. I am still experimenting with my Amanda setup. I have
[clip]
> Generally speaking, dump is not the prefered utility for use with
> amanda. We seem to have gradually come to prefer tar, in any version
> 1.13-19 or higher.
Gene, though that is the conventional wisdom for Linux ext2/ext3
because of kernel buffer inconsistency issues, I don't think Dan
mentioned his OS; for some OS's, like Solaris, (ufs)dump is arguably
the preferred solution unless you require excludes or subdirectories.
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Jay Lessert jay_lessert AT accelerant DOT net
Accelerant Networks Inc. (voice)1.503.439.3461
Beaverton OR, USA (fax)1.503.466.9472
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