Amanda-Users

Re: backing up amanda server

2004-05-18 11:00:04
Subject: Re: backing up amanda server
From: Jonathan Dill <jfdill AT jfdill DOT com>
To: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 10:57:33 -0400
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 10:08, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> And there are the cases when there are problems with the tapedrive
> (wrong tape, holiday period, operator couldn't make it in the office
> because he's sick etc.)
> Having (at least incremental) backups on holdingdisk is a nice
> fallback.

Oh yeah that reminds me...If your average amanda runs are much smaller
than the size of a tape, then you might consider a strategy of usually
backing up to holding disk, and periodically running amflush to try to
get the tapes as full as possible.  I have one amanda setup that I run
that way.

-- 
Jonathan Dill <jfdill AT jfdill DOT com>


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>