On Tue May 6 2003 11:01, PMGardner AT aircraftbraking DOT com wrote:
>Hello, all.  I'm new to the group and the AMANDA softare but have
>made the application my first choice alternative to an expensive,
>enterprise
>solution.  I will be backing up 66 UNIX hosts and have listed my
>spec'ed hardware and software choices below along with some
>questions.  I would appreciate any feedback or insight to these
>items, or others for that matter, anyone might have.
>
>Server HW - Dell PowerEdge 2600, 1.8GHz Xeon, 512MB RAM, 146GB 10k
> HD Server SW - Redhat 8.0
>Tape HW - Overland Data 810 (Single DLT8000 drive, 10 slot
> stacker)

That sounds like enough iron to me.  And if you update the kernel to 
2.4.21-rc1(-ck6 too?), one of the gismos that shows up in the make 
config is a special treatment for amanda in the networking section, 
recognizing that amanda needs a few ports at high addresses to 
function well in a client/server format.  As to how difficult this 
might be for the other machines to work with that, I'd guess its a 
build the client stuff on each machine and see.

This is one case where I'd let the clients do any compression for 2 
reasons, the first one being the reduced net bandwidth the 
compressed file uses as its being moved to the server.  And with 
that many clients, even if they old & slow, its the network that 
will be the bottleneck if all clients try to transmitt back async.  
But thats a scheduleing problem that can be worked out in time.

>- Should I better the HW in one area or another?  PSR?  HD?  RAM?
>- We're primarily a Sun shop.  Should I go Solaris on SPARC vs.
>Redhat on Intel?
>- Is anyone using AMANDA with old Intergraph CLIX stations?  These
>make up the bulk of my stations (90%) with 2GB to 4GB drives max.

No knowledge of those.  What os, and cpu is in them?  How about a 
native C compiler?

>Do I need a client for such an OS or can I do a NFS mount or the
>likes?

The client model will use less net bandwidth IMO.

>- I will be backing up Solaris, HP-UX, and IRIX with anywhere from
>4GB to 36GB drives.
>
>I very much appreciate any feedback.

ISTR there was someone who was having problems with an IRIX client 
some time back, but I've no idea how it was resolved.  Sorry.  

Maybe that person will pipe up and relate how it went?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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