On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 at 2:34pm, Mark Berger wrote
> Hi,
Hi. These types of questions really belong only on amanda-users. So
that's where I've responded, and set follow-ups.
> I was inspired to mess with the Amanda program for the nth time recently.
If you devote just a little more time to your "messing with", I bet you'll
be very pleased.
> What I cannot seem to figure out is supposing I have 8 machines ( 1 main
> server & 7 others) & want to do a full backup of the main server every night
> & a full backup of one other machine per day either in rotation or ad-hoc
> how can I persuade amanda to allow me to label / rotate tapes manually &
> always do a full backup of the specified machine?
This is easy. In your amanda.conf, you specify a dumpcycle of 7 days, and
runspercycle of 7 (assuming you're going to run amanda every day). Your
tapecycle should be at least 8, but make it as long as you need a history
for.
Where you handle the "full of this machine every day, full of these others
once a week" is in the disklist. For the machine you want a full backup
of everyday, you use, e.g., a dumptype like "always-full" which, in its
definition, includes "dumpcycle 0". For the others, you use a different
dumptype, e.g., comp-user, with no dumpcycle definition.
This is exactly what I do. I do full backups of all my machines' /var and
/ partitions every night, and rotate full backups of everybody's /home
drives.
> It appears to me that much effort has gone into the scheduling etc but I am
> completely unclear as to how I might just say "backup machine 10.0.78.56 (
> or whatever ) in full to whatever tape happens to be in the drive - no
> arguments - no wrong tape etc just do it!" . - Or for that matter restore a
> file / group of files from tape in drive to machine
> xx.xx.xx.xx:/directory/subdirectory
Restoring is handled by amrecover (for picking and choosing) and amrestore
(for getting an entire dump image), which both have very informative man
pages...
Hope this helps.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
