[DRBD-user] Amanda remote backup

Poyner, Brandon bpoyner at ccac.edu
Tue Apr 26 15:34:10 CEST 2005

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


You can use GNUTAR instead of DUMP for the program field in your
amanda.conf.  That works for backing up my drbd partitions.  I
explicitly tell Amanda to back up the same mount point on both servers
where the drbd partition mounts.  It will only back up the primary
server's copy of the data but that's all I need.

For what it's worth Linus himself has come out against using
dump/restore.  He claims it's unreliable and the better option is to use
tar/cpio.  My first backups were done with dump/restore and can
understand why you would want to use it, but on Linux with Amanda gnutar
is the better answer.

http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer III
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086
 

-----Original Message-----
From: drbd-user-bounces at linbit.com [mailto:drbd-user-bounces at linbit.com]
On Behalf Of Kee Gohil
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 7:18 AM
To: drbd-user at linbit.com
Subject: RE: [DRBD-user] Amanda remote backup


Yes - It has the same permissions as /var (for example).  /var works
fine.

Amanda uses "dump" to backup the partitions.  

The man page for dump says

"...either a mountpoint of a filesystem or a list of files
and directories to be backed up as a subset of a filesystem.  In the
former case, either the path to a mounted filesystem or the device of an
unmounted filesystem can be used."

Because /home is mounted I have to use /home as the dump source.  I
could try and use /dev/sda8 but that sounds a little scary as it would
be bypassing the /dev/drbd0 device.

Kee




-----Original Message-----
From: Lars Ellenberg [mailto:Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com] 
Sent: 26 April 2005 11:00
To: drbd-user at lists.linbit.com
Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] Amanda remote backup

/ 2005-04-26 10:26:55 +0100
\ Kee Gohil:
> 
> 
> Yes, fs0 is in a primary state.  I have no secondary at the moment as 
> I am waiting it to be delivered.  So current state is
> 
> Primary/Unknown
> 
> Is that going to be a problem?

no, should just work.
may be not drbd related.
(has amada user permissino to access /home?)

	Lars
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