Author: Sebastian Marten <sebi4711 AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:18:56 +0100
Hi, I have a small fileser at home and I'm looking for a brackup software. I found amanda, and i think it can be the right thing for my server. But I don't have a taper. I only habe a DVD-Writer with
Author: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:28:07 +0100
Sebastian Marten wrote: Hi, I have a small fileser at home and I'm looking for a brackup software. I found amanda, and i think it can be the right thing for my server. But I don't have a taper. I onl
Author: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <sgw AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:37:09 +0100
Sebastian Marten schrieb: Hi, I have a small fileser at home and I'm looking for a brackup software. I found amanda, and i think it can be the right thing for my server. But I don't have a taper. I o
Author: Franz Fischer <amanda AT franz-fischer DOT de>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:46:24 +0100 (MET)
Sebastian Marten's Mail: google for ``amanda cdrw taper''. I knew only, that such a beast exists, but do not have any personal experience with it. Bye \franz
Sebastian, Amanda does not at present support optical media directly. As others have pointed out, you can hack around it by writing to disk (using the virtual tape driver), and then burning those vir
Author: Graeme Humphries <graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 07:44:59 -0600
The good news is that we are working on native optical media support. No promises about a release date, but it will be available at some point. I am *so* happy to hear that. I need a real backup solu
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:31:40 -0500
Neither can I, Graeme. So, since big hard drives are almost commodity items now, I'd get one big (200GB?) enough, install it on the 2nd cable as slave, eg /dev/hdd, and partition it into 3 pieces. A
Author: Graeme Humphries <graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:45:04 -0600
In the grand scheme of things, this is a one time per hd failure expense, whereas using re-recordable dvd's still needs to have spares for the disk failures which seems to be in the 10% per re-write
Author: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert AT linux-m68k DOT org>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:03:33 +0100 (CET)
^^^ Make it at least two, and never connect both of them to your system at the same time. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert AT linux-m68k DO
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:34:48 -0500
TBT, when I originally bought into the idea of doing dvd based backups, the disks were in the $3 each range, and my first drive was nearly $200. 2 drives later, $50. Now they are much more reasonable
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:43:57 -0500
Thats fine if they are removables, Geert, like in a usb or firewire enclosure, but that also doubles the cost per gigabyte. This one is a bare commodity 200GB WD, PATA drive. I thought of only mounti
Author: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:02:25 +0100
Personally I do not use such a setup, but (untested) would something like this work? In amanda.conf, backup to a vtape: tapedev "file:/space/vtape" tapetype DVD47G define tapetype DVD47G { length 448
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:35:23 -0500
Ext3 seems to be 100% so far with one exception. That knocking sound in the background? Thats me, knocking on wood when I say that. :) In that case, it will have to destroy a 1500J wall suppressor th
Author: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert AT linux-m68k DOT org>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:07:37 +0100 (CET)
Do not underestimate lightning ;-) Transformers on poles? Oh the horror! UPS? Yes, we have one at work. But at home? Probably I'm too spoiled by the reliability of the Belgian power grid... Gr{oetje,
Author: Graeme Humphries <graeme.humphries AT vcom DOT com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:09:01 -0600
UPS? Yes, we have one at work. But at home? Probably I'm too spoiled by the reliability of the Belgian power grid... Sounds like. I bought myself a $60 APC UPS for my home server years ago, because
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:06:52 -0500
Never have. I was once, out in Nebraska, driving toward the EDU TV station I was responsible for, and saw from about 2 miles away, 3 different lightning strikes all just sit on that 1079 foot tower f