From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 12 15:34:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FDEA16A4CF for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:34:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 122A743D3F for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:34:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from v.lieder@gmx.de) Received: (qmail 20717 invoked by uid 65534); 12 Jul 2004 15:34:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [212.19.59.214]) (212.19.59.214) by mail.gmx.net (mp001) with SMTP; 12 Jul 2004 17:34:52 +0200 X-Authenticated: #3623685 Message-ID: <40F2AFA1.4080201@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:34:57 +0200 From: Volker Lieder User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <40F2A570.80301@gmx.de> <40F2A9A4.1040106@solid-state-logic.com> In-Reply-To: <40F2A9A4.1040106@solid-state-logic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Large Backup with Amanda X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:34:54 -0000 Martin Hepworth wrote: > Why the multilevel backups? > > Are you using files based tapes in amanda for the 1st machine then > real tapes in the 2nd? On the first machine we have virtual devices on a hard disk, on the second machine is a backup-tape on which we backup the files created on the first machine, also with amanda. And i think the second amanda isn't necessary because we already dumped the files on the first machine... > > you can use tar to backup if really want, but you loose the power of > amanda where you can keep the index file separate and it will tell you > which tape to go get when you need a restore. > > -- > Martin Hepworth > Snr Systems Administrator > Solid State Logic > Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 > > > Volker Lieder wrote: > >> Hello List, >> i have a little question. >> I have to backup nearly 330GB of Data in my company from different >> hosts. >> At this moment we have installed 2 Servers. One server catches all >> the backups >> from the different clients with amanda and makes a huge folder within >> all the backup-files. >> After that we backup these folders in 80GB-portions on the other >> server which has >> a backup-tape, also with amanda. >> Is it possible to backup these files easily with a tar or is an >> amanda-backup >> necessary? >> Or has anybody an other solution or idea? >> Volker