Paul Bijnens said: > Kurt Yoder wrote: > >> I don't think this would work. AFAIK, you can't back up the index and log files for the current backup onto the current backup. >> Plus, >> there's no way to guarantee that this partition is the last one backed up onto tape. Plus, even if you could guarantee that, there >> would be no way of knowing how many backup images are on the tape, >> so you couldn't do "mt fsf <somenumber>" to get to where you want to >> be on tape. > > Oh yes there is. A quick and dirty way: > > amdump YourConf && tar -zcf /dev/nst0 /var/lib/amanda
True; hadn't thought of that. I wonder if it would be worthwhile to put in a feature request for Amanda: store current tape's index & backup information at the beginning of the tape before anything else is written. Could be set as an option for those who would want this kind of thing. -- Kurt Yoder Sport & Health network administrator
