Best way to backup cyrus system (lots of inodes!)

Paul M Fleming pfleming at siumed.edu
Fri Nov 22 13:56:29 EST 2002


We're backing up w/ Legato (under linux w/ a network based server
running on Solaris) and it works fairely well.. 1 of our servers has
1Million files and 6Gb of data in the store. The other as just under
1Million using 10 Gb. For each a full backup of the store takes about 1
hour. 



Rob Siemborski wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, John Hughes wrote:
> 
> > At www.amanda.org I see "AMANDA uses native dump and/or GNU tar
> > facilities"
> >
> > Can you use vxdump with amanda?
> 
> Sure.  As of 2.4.1 (from their NEWS file):
> 
> * Configure now looks for vxdump and vxrestore in /usr/lib/fs/vxfs for
> Solaris systems and will use it vxdump/vxrestore automatically on vxfs
> filesystems.
> 
> -Rob
> 
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