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How smart is AMANDA
2005-07-12 18:31:28
I am in search of a backup solution for 25 linux boxes and 10 WinXP
boxes spread out in 3 different cities. Amanda seems quite capable of
handling straight forward backups, however my situation is a bit
difficult.
I will be the only one doing these backups and I would like the process
to be as automated as possible. Our linux boxes run traffic simulation
models that can take 25 to 30 hours to run. Our engineers relentlessly
run these boxes almost non-stop. Our simulations are extremly heavy on
the I/O, so running a backup while a simulation is running is out of the
question. And since these simulations take so long to run, telling my
engineers they cannot use the machine over the weekend because of a
scheduled backup would not work at all.
So I need a smart backup plan that can adjust to different schedules
based on machine avaliability, but at the end of the week have a dump of
each machine. Any ideas?
Is there a way for AMANDA to determine if a machine is busy or idle and
do the backup only when it is idle? On the same token can it pause its
backup of that box if another simulation is started.
Would I have any issues dumping to disk or NAS?
Thanks for the help!
Chris Saunders
PBConsult
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