[gtaSAGE-members] backup client

[Julian C. Dunn]

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On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 23:14, Robert Brockway wrote:

> > Yes, I've done the homegrown tar thing and I've looked at AMANDA...
> > homegrown tar does indeed backup/restore but there's no way for me to s=
ee
> > ahead of time how much data I've backed up so far (and conversely,
> > how much more left to go) while it's running... It's not a huge issue,
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> The dump family (dump, ufsdump, xfsdump, etc, etc) do this nicely,
> providing periodical output of how much data is left to dump and an
> estimate of the time to completion.  You'd need to look for a seperate gu=
i
> frontend though.  There is a dump suitable for just about every unix
> filesystem.  Reiserfs is a notable exceptiom (despite the existance of a
> reiserdump which is really just a frontend to tar).

To sell AMANDA again -- while AMANDA jobs run in the background, you can
always use amstatus(8) to display the current status of any AMANDA
operation.

I checked and AMANDA also can use GNU tar if you prefer that to the host
system's dump command.

Making the point about GUIs again: given the choice between working
backups and a nice GUI, it's pretty clear what SAs everywhere should
choose. That isn't to say that there aren't good backup tools out there
with fancy GUIs -- Arkeia is actually not bad, unless you employ a
tape-changing monkey who forgets to change the tapes and then you have
to feed tapes to the damn thing by hand so it relearns its indices (this
actually happened) -- but by and large, my experience has been that the
tools that work, and work reliably, don't have fancy GUIs.

(And hello to my esteemed colleague Robert)

- Julian

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