- 1. Open file backup? (score: 1)
- Author: JJB <onephatcat AT earthlink DOT net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:46:59 -0700
- Hello, Does Amanda's mac and windows client software allow open files to be backed up the way that commercial backup software like EMC Retrospect (what we are using now) does? I tried to find info on
- /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2007-10/msg00170.html (10,977 bytes)
- 2. Re: Open file backup? (score: 1)
- Author: Greg Troxel <gdt AT ir.bbn DOT com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:03:10 -0400
- Amanda doesn't actually handle reading the files; it uses dump (available on BSD and traditional unixes) and GNU tar (available pretty much everywhere) to read files and make a dump stream. I'm not s
- /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2007-10/msg00171.html (13,655 bytes)
- 3. RE: Open file backup? (score: 1)
- Author: "Johan Booysen" <johan AT matrix-data.co DOT uk>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:19:20 +0100
- VSS = Volume Shadow Copy Service. I believe this is native to Windows XP/2003, and does what Greg mentions below - same sort of thing as logical volume snapshots in Linux - so that a backup is taken
- /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2007-10/msg00172.html (14,672 bytes)
- 4. Re: Open file backup? (score: 1)
- Author: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:48:27 -0400
- Haven't heard any problems with Mac's as they now are basically another varient of unix. Windows makes it a real pain in the arse to get good backups. Mostly permissions and the open file problem you
- /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2007-10/msg00173.html (13,227 bytes)
- 5. Re: Open file backup? (score: 1)
- Author: Chris Hoogendyk <hoogendyk AT bio.umass DOT edu>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:52:49 -0400
- I'm not sure if you're asking about a problem where some methods skip files that are currently open, issues with getting an atomic snapshot, or something more complicated about files that are being w
- /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2007-10/msg00174.html (12,737 bytes)
- 6. Re: Open file backup? (score: 1)
- Author: Chris Hoogendyk <hoogendyk AT bio.umass DOT edu>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:22:35 -0400
- I'm not sure if you're asking about a problem where some methods skip files that are currently open, issues with getting an atomic snapshot, or something more complicated about files that are being w
- /usr/local/webapp/mharc-adsm.org/html/Amanda-Users/2007-10/msg00175.html (14,825 bytes)
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