khalid maqsudi wrote:
What should my disklist look like if I want to dump the entire c1t0d0s5
slice (which is also my holding disk) to tape. I have only 1 machine
(master) and no clients connected to a powervault 128T tape device
running solaris 8. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Also, How
can I verify if I have the client software on my master (or was that
taken care of automatically when I compiled AMANDA on it as a master? )
Running "amcheck" as user amanda on the server should pass without
errors.
The disklist entry could be as simple as:
my.master.com c1t0d0s5 holding-disk
where "holding-disk" is a dumptype having the "holdingdisk no"
parameter (to avoid feeding the output to the input). But by
bypassing the holdingdisk, you fall into the trouble of a non-optimal
backup with a streaming tape that does not stream anymore (and is
broken after a few weeks too probably).
It is better to configure the disk so that you can backup everything
except the holdingdisk directory. Asume the slice is mounted
under /space, then:
mkdir /space/amandahold
mkdir /space/users
mkdir /space/projects
and then use gnutar to backup the /space/users and /space/projects
only (no need to bypass holdingdisk then).
Or you could use the gnutar exclude mechanism with a disklist
entry like:
my.master.com /space {
comp-user-tar
exclude append "./amandahold"
}
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