Hi, Joe,

on Dienstag, 31. August 2004 at 21:49 you wrote to amanda-users:

JK> Gavin Henry wrote:

>> Amanda is much better than that. It will but the backup in a holding disk
>> i.e. folder/partition until space runs out or hits the limit you set.

[...]

>> Read the docs first and look at this site:
>> 
>> http://www.oops.co.at/AMANDA-docs/index.html

Thanks, Gavin.

JK> So... is amanda really not made for disaster recovery?  That's great
JK> that it will back up to a holding disk with no tape but if the hard
JK> drive dies it's rather meaningless.

Give it a tape.

Disaster Recovery is a special thing.

AMANDA does still help you in this case, as "she" makes it possible to
restore your tapes WITHOUT any AMANDA-software installed.

Take any UNIX/Linux with a proper tapedrive and go.

It is not a very good argument to say AMANDA is bad, because the disk
onto which it dumps your data in the case you failed to change the
tape fails.

This reminds me of the old problem:

You have a light which tells you your brakes failed.
 What if this light fails?
You get a light which tells you that the light failed, that tells you
your brakes failed.
 What if THIS light fails?

Dumping to the holdingdisk provides an additional layer of security in
the case you put in the wrong tape, your drive eats the tape or
something similar.

AMANDA is not designed to take care of harddisks.
 
Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at