Author: Conny Gyllendahl <conny AT consilia.aland DOT fi>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:27:05 +0300 (EEST)
Hello again everyone! Now that I have sorted out my tapetype issue I kindly ask for some help on configuring Amanda. What I would like to do is: - full backups every weekday (mon-fri) - use 5 tapes (
Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 09:43:59 -0400 (EDT)
You need a *nix client with the samba client bits installed in order to get the 'doze box. The disklist entry would look like: $UNIX_HOST //bagheera/misc $DUMPTYPE_USING_TAR Close. Set dumpcycle to 0
Author: Conny Gyllendahl <conny AT consilia.aland DOT fi>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:07:54 +0300 (EEST)
*snip* 1000 x thanks for the help! I have Amanda up and running and backing up our three servers just the way we wanted it now. Now for my last question for this time: what are the pros and cons, if
Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:57:57 -0400 (EDT)
Glad to hear it. Tread lightly -- thar be dragons here. :) They both have their pros and cons, and it can be a matter of deep seated religous belief for people. FS specific dump programs can back up
Author: Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:41:38 -0400
Thats an almost religious battle that seems to not have a definitive answer and I'd rather not throw any more starter on the fire. Me, I use tar, if for no other reason than it can accept an exclude
One more point for tar (not better, just a capability) ... As Joshua pointed out tar can backup directory trees. This is sometimes necessary to split a huge partition into pieces that fit on a single
You say "ufs(dump)", so I'm assuming recent Solaris. The calculation is different for Linux. ufsdump plus: - Gets all file system/file attributes, period, no ifs ands or buts, even ones you don't kno
For those like me who did not know Jay's acronym: $ dict TMTOWTDI ** Source: Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) ** TMTOWTDI /tim-toh'-dee/There's More Than One Way To Do It. This abbreviation of the of
Author: Conny Gyllendahl <conny AT consilia.aland DOT fi>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:27:16 +0300 (EEST)
Hmm.. odd, I have been using a dumptype using ufsdump for just subdirectories and it appears to be working. Or maybe amanda is smarter than me, notices it and switches them to using tar instead. :) -
Author: Conny Gyllendahl <conny AT consilia.aland DOT fi>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:30:59 +0300 (EEST)
Correctamundo! Solaris 2.8 to be precise. *snip great list of pros and cons* Thanks for the input! -- Conny Gyllendahl It is not enough to have great qualities, we should also have the management of
files_to_dump Specifies the files to dump. Usually it identifies a whole file system by its raw device name (for example, /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s6). Incremental dumps (levels 1 to 9) of files changed after
Author: Conny Gyllendahl <conny AT consilia.aland DOT fi>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 13:58:34 +0300 (EEST)
Looks like it, though I cannot speak for its behaviour if I specified a mount-point. Either way, through sheer luck, it works just like I wanted it to (ie: doing level 0 dumps all the time). /Conny