Re: handling off-site tape storage
2005-06-07 00:57:46
--On Tuesday, June 07, 2005 13:13:57 +1000 "Keenan, Greg John (Greg)** CTR **"
<gjkeenan AT lucent DOT com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm curious how admins out there handle the off-site storage situation. The
> requirement here is that full weekly backups are stored off-site for 4
> weeks, full monthly backups for 6 months etc.
>
> Obviously letting Amanda decide when level 0 should be done on a DLE doesn't
> give you a bunch of tapes on Friday with all DLE's level 0.
>
> The previous admin forced the situation with the amadmin force option. Is
> this the best way? Is there another way? I'm happy to try and change the
> full-friday mindset here if there is a better solution.
>
You could run a separate config (using always-full and record no) weekly
and take that set off-site.
Another option would be to take a dumpcycle's worth of tapes off-site; there
should be at least one full of each DLE in the set.
If you have a remote location with a tape drive (and adequate bandwidth), you
can run an Amanda config remotely. Then the tapes are off-site as soon as
they are written. For a shorter backup window, do the full backups to an
on-site disk, then backup that remotely.
I'm sure there are other ways as well.
Frank
> Appreciate any insight.
>
> Regards,
> Greg.
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