I have a cron job emailing me a sorted index list every night after backup has been performed. Look:
date host disk lv tape or file file status 2002-01-17 localhost / 1 daily6 10 OK 2002-01-17 localhost /boot 1 daily6 2 OK 2002-01-17 localhost /games 1 daily6 1 OK 2002-01-17 localhost /home/drivers 1 daily6 7 OK 2002-01-17 localhost /home/ke 2 daily6 14 OK 2002-01-17 localhost /home/software 1 daily6 4 OK 2002-01-17 localhost /tmp 1 daily6 3 OK 2002-01-17 localhost /usr 1 daily6 13 OK 2002-01-17 localhost /var 1 daily6 12 OK <snip> 2002-01-16 localhost / 1 daily5 4 OK 2002-01-16 localhost /boot 0 daily5 10 OK 2002-01-16 localhost /games 0 daily5 7 OK 2002-01-16 localhost /home/drivers 0 daily5 12 OK <snip> It's sortet by date rather than disk so that I can find the latest full and incremental backup in a hurry. It gives me complete oversight of where to find the tapes of backed up disks. The list also has the filemark numbers to one could easily restore from a floppy with minimum system and tar. One could also tar the amanda database and also email/baskup this on another machine. In my case that would be overkill, the anamda database would quickly be recovered from the tape containing /var with the above list. All that is left to backup is metadata, amandaconfig (to know dumptype etc.) and the boot block. Get the new disk(s), full recover and back in business. I have a small script that collects most of these (except the bootblock) and send me an email, I run it after any change. ps. If you spot any problems in the above please let me know. I hate to find out the hard way. It's a new setup and full recover will be tested for the first time this weekend, exiting ;). As you know there's no points for backing up, only restoring. best, Kasper At 10:15 17-01-2002 +0100, you wrote: >Hi all, > >perhaps you asked yourself too, I donīt get the clue: > >The index is stored under /var/amanda... and the index stores all places >where to find backups on the different tapes - so far am I right? > >Now, the server dies and all disks go south, so /var/amanda --- the index >must be gone - so far am I right ? > >I now would have to figure out by hand on what type I can find the level 0 >dump for my /var/amanda directory, then I will have to figure out the last >incremental, then I can restore the amanda-index and can then continue to >restore the rest of the amanda-server - am I right here? > >What do you do, in case there is a real emergency that you donīt have to >figure out, on what tape which dump was written without having access to >the index ??? > >Best regards > > >-- >Andreas Baier >MindMatics AG fon: +49 (0)89 322986-0 >Frankfurter Ring 193a fax: +49 (0)89 9227 9897 >80807 Munich internet: www.mindmatics.de >Germany
