Re: Need to restore a file

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl@jifvik.org>]

Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> 
>>I don't know what the status or use of the other two smaller servers are, 
>>but if there is sufficient disk space, I could put together an amanda 
>>backup (on disk) of critical areas to give us incrementals over a period. 
>>[...]
> 
> 
> server3 is running a weekly backup of several anonymous-rsync areas,
> including CVS and mailing list archives for all the projects.  It's at
> 78% disk utilization (14GB free) based on this.
> 
> server2 is running mysql for the mnogosearch engine.  It has 45GB
> free.
> 
> sourceware's main directories (/export/u0, /home) use 136GB and 3GB
> respectively.

Okay, that's not going to happen with that much space free then, 
especially when you allow for future expansion.

I suppose no-one has a 300GB or preferably larger disk they'd be prepared 
to donate to put in server3? I don't know if we could get away with IDE 
rather than SCSI but I'm sure we don't need to RAID it, if all it's being 
used for is reproducible stuff - if it dies we just restart the backups on 
a new disk. I presume the motherboard won't have SATA. This is assuming RH 
would be prepared to install, and there's room in the chassis. I do have 
an unused Western Digital 320GB disk but it's a few years old and in any 
case it's possibly cheaper to buy one in the States than for me to post it 
from here!

I'd be happy to chip in and paypal someone in order to buy one.

If we did that, we'd have enough space on server3 for more regular 
backups, with incrementals, managed by amanda. If server3 did a more 
frequent rsync, amanda could just back up that, instead of connecting to 
sourceware; although hopefully there would be room for amanda to back up 
other things too - not just the things we want readily available for a 
"hot swap".

Jifl
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