On Wednesday 13 November 2002 10:06, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 at 8:02pm, Gene Heskett wrote > >> Not enough emphasis is placed on the fact that tar won't access >> a file with any kind of a lock on it, and in the case of amanda, >> its certainly a fixable problem. I recovered all the indexes >> and curfiles and such but absolutely nothing else that could be >> construed as a configuration file. >> >> So chg-scsi.conf, amanda.conf, disklist, tapelist & the rest of >> the configuration stuff in /usr/local/etc/amanda/DailySet1 is >> gone and I'm going to have to re-invent a goodly number of >> wheels before amanda is back up and running. > >*snip* > >> Comments everybody? > >This is exactly why my nightly backup script, after running the > amdumps and rewinding/ejecting the tapes, tars up all the amanda > config files and directories. That tar ball then gets put two > places (on two separate machines), each of which are backed up. > So, if my amanda server completely dies, I'll still have my > complete config and set up as of last night.
So it looks as if I'm going to have to reinvent that wheel too. I take it that must depend on the system, Jon L. tells me his backups do contain all that. I *think* he's doing solaris. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.19% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly