Chris,
Following that line of thinking, you would almost want to append the indexes
to the end of the tape. This is a bad idea, mainly because of the word
'append', which means different things to different drives and OSes, to put
it nicely.
If you can't append, you could write your indexes to a separate tape, as a
separate backup set. This would work, but has a lot of hardware overhead.
You really just care about what level on what disk on what date, right?
There is an option to print a tape label after the backup has completed
successfully. My favorite size of label is 8.5" by 11". You might find an
A4-sized label. It doesn't fit on a tape very well, but if you leave a cheap
printer (finally, a use for injets!) plugged into your tape server, and have
it print a one-page label every night, you will have the recovery list
you're looking for without major hacking. (And a hard-copy record that
you're doing backups, and a fast way to find the right tape for user file
recovery, and more paperwork to archive (or burn) at the end of the year.)
Hope this helps,
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Herrmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 4:17 PM
To: 'Bradley Glonka'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Disaster Recovery Recipe
You should be able to read it off by catting /dev/st0 or similar; One
question I'd like to add is, is it possible to store the updated indexes on
the tape - I ask because in case of disaster, you'd ideally want to be able
to know that you need tapes 5,6,7 and no others to bring your system back to
it's last backed up state. I haven't looked really hard (and so may be
totally in error), but I think that the indexes are stored underneath each
configuration, and only updated after a backup (which is fair enough). Can
these indexes be written to tape as well, meaning that from the last backup
tape, it should be possible to get amanda to tell you which tapes you
exactly which tapes you need?
Cheers,
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bradley Glonka
Sent: Thursday, 11 January 2001 00:12
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Disaster Recovery Recipe
Hi There,
I'm trying to put together a procedure to recover data if the amanda
server goes down. Is there a recipe for doing this? I'm mainly
interested in reading amanda tapes without amanda.
Thanks
Brad
