Amanda backup routine

[Brad Crotchett]

Yeah, I am playing around with it right now and it seems to be exactly what I 
need.  Thanks again for the suggestion!

Brad

Gerald wrote: 
> > 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?
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> It's pretty fast.  In the past I've used it to sync multigigabyte
> partitions over 100 Mbps connections.  It did this every two hours without
> affecting the server load too heavily.  The replication algorithm it uses
> is pretty efficient.
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> > Gerald wrote:
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> > > 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.
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> > > How much bandwidth is available between server1 and server2?  Rsync might
> > > be a better solution:
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> > >     http://rsync.samba.org/
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> > > 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 than 24 hours outdated with respect to server1.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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