Integrating Backup for a Multiple Operating System Network with Amanda
Edward L. Haletky
If you have a network of disparate operating systems, and a single tape drive, how do you back up your important data? The sample network discussed in this article consists of Apple Macintosh, Linux, Windows 2000, and various flavors of Linux and UNIX. Also, due to disk space limitations, there cannot be a single file server, and there is operating system-specific configuration data that cannot be stored on a single file server. Given a single DDS-3 tape drive, how do you back up the multiple file systems and configuration data required? There are several available options, but the Amanda backup tool (“Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver”) provides the requirements for backing up the file systems and configuration data. This article describes how I used Amanda to organize backups on a complex heterogeneous network. For more on Amanda and how to configure it, see the “Backing Up the Network with Amanda,” by David T. Smith (Sys Admin, April 2002).
http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7033/sam0204l/sam0204l.htm
If you have a network of disparate operating systems, and a single tape drive, how do you back up your important data? The sample network discussed in this article consists of Apple Macintosh, Linux, Windows 2000, and various flavors of Linux and UNIX. Also, due to disk space limitations, there cannot be a single file server, and there is operating system-specific configuration data that cannot be stored on a single file server. Given a single DDS-3 tape drive, how do you back up the multiple file systems and configuration data required? There are several available options, but the Amanda backup tool (“Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver”) provides the requirements for backing up the file systems and configuration data. This article describes how I used Amanda to organize backups on a complex heterogeneous network. For more on Amanda and how to configure it, see the “Backing Up the Network with Amanda,” by David T. Smith (Sys Admin, April 2002).
http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7033/sam0204l/sam0204l.htm
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