re: [OT] Re: xfsdump sample scripts

[Greg Freemyer <freemyer@NorcrossGroup.com>]

Matteo,

I actually went and briefly looked at the Amanda website a couple of months ago.

It sounded as if it was targeting a collection of Linux servers being backed up to a single tape drive.

I'm just backing up one server to local large disk drive.  (This is just what the sample script does as well. :) )

Does using Amanda in this type of an environment simplify life, or make it worse.

In particular, I want to come up with a end-user friendly restore mechanism.  

My plan is to keep the last 30 days of backups online and I would like to give end-users the ability to restore their own files.  Hopefully via a http interface.

I'm not sure if that is feasible yet or not, but that is my goal.

Greg Freemyer
Internet Engineer
Deployment and Integration Specialist
Compaq ASE - Tru64
Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect
The Norcross Group
www.NorcrossGroup.com


 >>  Hi all,

 >>  On Fri, 17 May 2002, Federico Sevilla III wrote:

 >>  > On Fri, 17 May 2002 at 16:56, Ian Cumming wrote:
 >>  > > Note: Be sure to only restore the backup dumps up to the date you wish
 >>  > > to restore to!  For example, if you want to restore to Tuesday, only
 >>  > > restore 0, 1 and 2 - not anything else!
 >>  > 
 >>  > So I restore from 0, then from 1, then from 2? Simply restoring from 2
 >>  > wouldn't work?
 >>  > 
 >>  >  --> Jijo
 >>  > 

 >>  have you ever thought of using amanda for your backups?

 >>  Doing so, you'll get rid of all sorts of implementation details
 >>  plus a whole bunch of interesting extras (for short).

 >>  Just a thought.

 >>  Ciao,

 >>  -m