Subject: Re: Amanda backup routine From: Brad Crotchett <brad@ispn.net> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 10:17:24 -0600 Message-Id: <1042042776.24634.19.camel@Darkmatter.ispn.net>
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:
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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.
>
> 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 than 24 hours outdated with respect to server1.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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