Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:15:26 -0500 (EST) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> To: Jimmy <jimmy@isppro.net> Cc: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>, francisv@dagupan.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup solutions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0112131211330.60780-100000@thud.tbe.net> In-Reply-To: <20011213102519.B9907-100000@mail.isppro.net>
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I'm not sure what you mean by tasks queues, but as for the all machines questions, as long as the tape is large anough to hold the data you are backing up, then yes. We do full level 0 dumps of each machine on our network every night. Yeah, you could argue the full dumps aren't necessary, but it's easier for us to get everything all at once. Amanda can back up entire disk partitions from any machine you choose, and if you list all the partitions from each of the machines, then you will have all of them on tape. Amanda can run in parallel mode, it tells the machines to send their data, and whatever data comes in that cannot yet get written to tape (either the drive is busy with another backup already, or all the partitions aren't there yet), it gets written to the holding disk, and then gets put onto tape when ready, so I hope that addresses your question about queues. -Gary "Complexity breeds bugs. Bugs prevent adoption, lack of adoption results in death. Death not good." On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Jimmy wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > > > I'll second the Amanda suggestion. It takes a little practice and > > determination, but once it's set up it runs quite beautifully. We've got > > a mix of 25+ Sun/FreeBSD servers backing up to a single FreeBSD box with a > > DDS-4 (great compression), and it never complains. We've even gotten it > > working with a Sun StorEdge L1000 using the loader mechanism, and it's > > wonderful compared to the $10k+ Veritas solution our vendor wanted... ;) > > > > I am sorry for my ignorance on this, but I am curious of Amanda. I have a > Tape Backup Unit which is a SCSI "Python 03812-XXX" de Sun Microsystems. > Till now I make manual backup of 4 servers on that single tape wich is > atached to a PC - FreeBSD System. The question is, can I make backups on > that single Tape of all the 4 servers? Can Amanda make tasks queues? > I am giving a look to the web page of that project and I see it works on > systems with more than one single tape. > > Well, may be what I am asking makes not sense ... I am sorry. > > --JImmy > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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