On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 09:15:57AM +0200, Nick Wilson wrote:
> Hi everyone, 
> 
> I just got a new 200gb ext hard drive for the purpose of using AMANDA to
> back up my system nightly. (had a few scares recently...)
> 
> I'd like to get some informed opinion on how much of that 200gb's i need
> to allocate to AMANDA. Here is the output of df -h
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb1             187G   18G  169G  10% /
> /dev/hda3              37G  5.8G   31G  16% /opt
> none                  506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda1             187G   33M  187G   1% /mnt/extDrive
> 
> 
> Ideally, i'd like some of the ext drive set aside for other stuff.. 
> 

how much data do you have to backup?
how frequently will you backup?
how many full dumps vs. incrementals will you want to keep?
will you compress or no?
where will you have a holding disk if any?
is this the only system you will backup?
mixing virtual tape, holding disk, and data being backed up
on the same HD spindle is a sure performance hit.
...


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