The following Linux systems are being backed up by the Avamar system:
| Host |
Backup Service | Backup Set | Notes |
| alh2.starp | Avamar | all local disk | Slow Controls Alarm Handler |
| beatrice.starp | Avamar | all local disk | Barrel Calorimeter and related systems |
| blanchett2.starp | Avamar | ||
| daqman.starp | Avamar | /RTS, /etc, /home, /var/named | DAQ infrastructure server |
| caine2.star | Avamar | /home | Levente Hajdu's desktop workstation |
| dean.star | Avamar | all local disk | Online Web server |
| evp.starp | Networker | /a/jevp, /etc, /home | Event Pool (event pool data is not saved) |
| fc1.star | Avamar | all local disk | File Catalog DB master |
| mtd-cr.starp | Avamar | MTD PC in Control Room | |
| onldb.starp | Avamar | /etc, /home, /online | Online DB master |
| onlldap.starp | Networker | ? | NIS and NFS server for OLP |
| presley2.star | Avamar | all local disk | Electronics Lab private network gateway and VME boot server |
| robinson.star | Avamar | all local disk | Offline DB master |
| sc2.starp | Networker | / | Slow Controls |
| sc5.starp | Avamar | all local disk | Slow Controls |
| softioc4.starp | Avamar | Slow Controls | |
| startrg.starp | Avamar | all local disk | Trigger |
| sun.star | Avamar | STAR's main web server and HyperNews mail server | |
| tofp.starp | Avamar | all local disk | TOF Control Room PC |
| webbj.star | Avamar | all local disk | Jason Webb's desktop PC |
Avamar backup summary reports are being sent to starsupport@bnl.gov.
STAR has a group (/clients/servers/linux/star) in which we can initiate restore requests using a Windows application available here (note, this is updated somewhat frequently, this is the current version as of July 10, 2013):
https://avamar1.b459.bnl.gov/DPNInstalls/downloads/WIN32/AvamarConsoleMultiple-windows-x86-6.1.1-87.exe
Note, with ITD's help, it is also possible to restore files to a system other than the one they were taken from - very useful for recovering from complete system failures.
Spring 2013: Growth rate of onlldap's storage (passing 600GB during the 2013 run) prompted a request from ITD to remove it from Avamar and return to the Networker system for its backups. This serves as the NIS and NFS server for users of the online Linux pool and the STAR SSH gateways.
For Windows workstations, until mid-2010, ITD provided a Retrospect backup client, which was capable of making bare-bones recoveries, but had a very short retention policy and no way to restore files without ITD's help. They are now using Avamar for Windows workstation backups, which provides a longer retention policy, but eliminates the bare-bones recovery and excludes various multimedia files. An improvement in Avamar is the ability to restore files directly from the client, without need for ITD assistance. The Shift Leader computer, and the workstations used by Liz M., Bill C. and the STSG file server (amongst others) are all backed up using this system.