Amanda backup routine

[Brad Crotchett]

Both servers are on the same 100MB switched network.  I never thought about 
rsync, but that may be a better way to go.  I assume rsync just syncs up 
specified directories between the servers?  Is it pretty fast?

Thanks for the help,

Brad

Gerald wrote:
> 
> It should be possible to do this with Amanda.  You could use amrestore to
> read the backup for server1, and feed the output to tar/restore on
> server2.  AFAIK, amrestore doesn't care what Amanda configuration name
> you're using so that shouldn't be an issue.
> 
> How much bandwidth is available between server1 and server2?  Rsync might
> be a better solution:
> 
>     http://rsync.samba.org/
> 
> With rsync there would be fewer moving parts (literally!), and you could
> sync more than once a day.
> 
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> > This way if server1 crashes, server2 can come online and not be more
> > than 24 hours outdated with respect to server1.  I am just wondering how
> > to tell amanda to use the tape from one amanda config to be used in the
> > restore of another amanda config.  I am sure amanda's db is going to say
> > that this is the wrong tape.  Maybe I can use a flag that forces amanda
> > to use the specified tape?  Or maybe there is a way to do this with one
> > amanda config?
> > 
> > Any thoughts or comments are appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
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> > Brad
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