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Re: Combining full disk backups with Amanda
2005-09-28 11:06:38
u wrote:
I'm using amanda 2.4.5 as a server with serveral 2.4.4p3 clients.
Any advice? is it a workable solution?
could you share your approach and methodology?
I would say that the big thing the third party solution will need to do
is mark the file system as having done a level 0 dump, so that Amanda
knows when the full backups were done. Otherwise, what you'll
essentially have is Amanda doing level 1 backups without ever having a
level 0 done, which will work out to endless full backups. ;)
This may prove quite problematic for you, especially in terms of
recovery. Is there a reason why you would want to use two different
backup tools? If the third party tool is effective / mandated by the
organization, why use Amanda at all? Or, vice versa, if the third party
tool is inadequate / inflexible for your incrementals, why not use
Amanda to do the full backups?
Graeme
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