--On Friday, December 03, 2004 17:11:18 -0500 Gil Naveh <gnaveh AT cleverex DOT 
com> wrote:

> Brain,
> I was able to backup into a local hard disk - but I was not sure that it is
> possible to do so remotely and on a different operating system.

You can use smbmount (part of Samba) to mount a Windows share
onto your Unix box.  Depending on the size of your backups
you may encounter performance problems, and I think there may
be a 2GB filesize limit.

Frank

> Anyway, per
> your suggestion it is time to further read from the Amanda docs...
> 
> Thanks again,
> gil
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> [mailto:owner-amanda-users AT amanda DOT org]On Behalf Of Brian Cuttler
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 4:37 PM
> To: Gil Naveh
> Cc: Brian Cuttler; amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Re: Recommendation for tape drives
> 
> 
> Gil,
> 
> Amanda is designed to attempt to load average data across the week.
> You can coerce it into a weekend full but it isn't the normal method
> of operations. This will require a large enough single volume to
> backup all partitions at level 0, rather than distrubuting level 0, 1, 2,
> across 5 volumes.
> 
> I've only heard good things about the VXA drives but have no personal
> experience.
> 
> Yes, amanda can backup to "virtual tapes" on disk - but that doesn't
> really protect you from fire/flood. One of the guys where I work likes
> to ask "How big an asteroid are you expecting ?" What level of disaster
> do you need (mandated ?) to be ready to recover from ? This may be a
> perfectly reasonable thing to do at your site, or it may not.
> 
> How many/much of the amanda docs/howto files have you read though ?
> 
>                                               Brian
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 04:21:12PM -0500, Gil Naveh wrote:
>> Thanks much for your help.
>> I have to convince my manager that it is essential to priorities backing
> up
>> our systems (including budget)
>> We are planning to perform level 0 backup during the weekend and
> incremental
>> backups during the week days.
>> Brian - it sounds like a similar situation to your system - a cycle of 5
>> days incremental backup and weekend full backup.
>> Please note that we have two separated data center so I should also
> consider
>> the Bandwidth on the network...
>> 
>> Regarding your question about how many partition do I have to back up - It
>> is hard to say because I just realized we bought two new servers...
>> 
>> I just want to have a backup - so I can sleep better at night...
>> 
>> Any thoughts about the drive: "EXABYTE 80GB/160GB VXA-2 TAPE DRIVE LCD
> INT"
>> ? (It cost ~950$ sounds like a good deal)
>> 
>> Finally, we have a window server with free hard drive storage - about
>> 200GB - my manager think that it would be better to backup our data on
> those
>> hard drives. Is it feasible to do so with Amanda? and if not recommended,
>> any good arguments are mostly welcome.
>> 
>> Thanks again and have a great weekend,
>> Gil
>> 



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