re[2]: [OT] Re: xfsdump sample scripts

[Greg Freemyer <freemyer@NorcrossGroup.com>]

Thanks for the info.

Looks like time to go get Amanda 2.4.3

 >>  On Fri, 17 May 2002 at 12:20pm, Greg Freemyer wrote

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

 >>  Actually the design is for one or more *nix boxes (and Win boxes via 
 >>  samba) backing up to a single tape drive.  Many people do use it for a 
 >>  single server, however.

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

 >>  Version 2.4.3 of amanda (currently in beta3) does this by design, using 
 >>  files on disk as if they were tapes.  Previous versions could do it by 
 >>  just specifying a non-existent device as the tape drive, and letting 
 >>  backups stay on the holding disk.

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

 >>  Amanda is *very* nice.  It does almost all the management, so you don't 
 >>  have to.  But...

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

 >>  amrecover (the command line file recovery utility) is very friendly.  Tell
 >>  
 >>  it the date, and it will list the files that existed on that day.  So you 
 >>  can even recover multiple versions of the same file, depending upon date.

 >>  > 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.

 >>  Well, amrecover does want to be run as root.  sudo could take care of 
 >>  that, but then you have issues with users having access to the files of 
 >>  others.  And I don't know of any http front end, so this may be an issue.

 >>  -- 
 >>  Joshua Baker-LePain
 >>  Department of Biomedical Engineering
 >>  Duke University







Greg Freemyer
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