Re: Restoring a blown-up server; determining which tapes have the backup

Subject:	Re: Restoring a blown-up server; determining which tapes have the backup
From:	Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To:	amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date:	Tue, 2 Sep 2003 08:59:28 -0400

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:32:26PM +0200, Marc Cuypers wrote:
> >
> Just a thought.  At this moment it would be easy to mail index files and 
> logs to another address (offsite), so they are saved from fire?  No 
> printing needed.

The logs and indexes can get pretty big.  For a system with just three
clients currently I tar'ed up my config dir (logs and index were 95+%)
and even gzip'ped it was over 17meg.  With an 18 tape tapecycle, that
is about a meg a day.  Doesn't scale real well to larger sites.

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Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
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