>1) How can I use gtar to backup directories with symbolic links ? ...
I agree with Olivier -- why would you want to do this? The usual point of
backups is to be able to restore things back the way they were. If you
add the tar option to follow symlinks instead of backing them up as is,
a restore is going to harder than it should be.
>2) How Amanda use the tape sequence ? For example, I have 15 tapes for backup
>purpose. Will it use the tape 1 after the tape 15 is used ?
Amanda picks tapes in a least recently used order. It pays absolutely
no attention to the actual tape label (i.e. it doesn't know that "12"
follows "11"). If you are careful the first time you go through your
tapes to give them to Amanda in the order you want, they should stay
that way.
After you've gone through the tape cycle once, take a look at the
tapelist file. If you do a "sort -n tapelist" you'll see the order
Amanda will use the tapes. If they did not end up that way, you'll need
to hand edit the file. That's been discussed here before, but if you
run into trouble, post again.
>I asked this question because our servers are housed in remote data center. Da
>ta Center operator uses predefined tape schedule to change tape manually. They
> will not receive amanda email to check for next tape name.
Different operations handle things in different ways, but it sounds to
me like it would be a good idea to let them know for sure what Amanda
is going to want. Otherwise Amanda is going to refuse the tape and the
backups will "fail" (go into degraded mode and require a manual amflush
the next day).
One simple way would be to do this a few hours before the "real"
amdump run:
amadmin <config> tape | Mail -s "Amanda tapes needed" whoever
>Edward.
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
