On 22 May 2002 at 3:26pm, Kirk Strauser wrote > > Not 100% correct as I see it. If you're using index, you'll be able to > > browse through your indexes and select individual files for restore. If > > you not use indexes you will only be able to restore whole filesystems > > with amrestore, or use the native tools such as tar or dump, combined with > > mt. > > OK. So you *can* still use amrecover, just not in the "FTP-like" mode.
No. amrecover depends upon the existence of the indexes. You can use amrestore with or without indexing, but not amrecover. > I hadn't thought of that, but it makes sense. Unless, of course, you > routinely manage to delete 1 or 2 files from /usr/bin, in which case > indexing would still be handy. My nightly amanda setup has 74 disklist entries of varying sizes, a dumpcycle of 1 week, runspercycle of 5, and (here's the kicker) a tapecycle of 60. So I've got 12 weeks of daily history. My indexdir is 135 MB. With disk space as cheap as it is these days, I really can't see any reason to run without indexing enabled. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
