>Yes, I see that as a valid potential way to go, if only it >was that simple the script you are suggesting could run in >advance of the amanda-server startup. yes, in your crontab file you could add a line like this: (say the script would be called dlmaintainer)
00 2 * * * (dlmaintainer && su amanda -c "amdump DailySetX") ps: the syntax above works for redhat linux >I'd thought there was a more automated way but this should >work around the issue pretty well. If there is, i don´t know it... >You have any experience with comp-tar usage on sgi and solaris >(vs discussions that I'd seen for linux systems) ? No I don´t. What I noticed in my redhat linux is that the amanda comp-tar backup truly uses the tar -cz option to make its backups. I proved it when i made a backup using amanda and read the tape contents without amanda, using the 3 commands bellow: mt rewind mt fsf NN dd if=/dev/nst0 bs=32k skip=1 | tar -tvz So, i believe that if your tar command works well on your system, amanda comp-tar would work fine also. Bruno. > (See brian, i´m posting your message on the list, ok?) > > Oh, Let´s see if I correctly understood your problem: you need to backup > your user directories, like /home/brian, /home/john, /home/melissa, (etc). > But you can´t simply make a backup of your entire /home directory. > So you, basically, would need a disklist file with the following entries: > > machine1 /home/brian comp-root-tar > machine1 /home/jon comp-root-tar > machine1 /home/melissa comp-root-tar > (and so on for every user directory) > > However, you don´t want to manually edit the disklist file every time you > create and delete a user. > Is this right? > > Well, the first thing that occurred to me is to do a script that runs before > amdump which would check what are the valid user directories of your machine > and would write these names in the disklist file. (actually, it would write > the correct disklist file entries, one for each directory). > > If someone know anything better, share with us. > > Hope it helps, > Bruno. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Cuttler" > To: "Bruno Negrão" > Cc: "Brian Cuttler" > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:28 PM > Subject: Re: Using amanda with just 1 tape - for testing - SOLVED > > > > Bruno, > > I realized you are writing about tapecycle (my latest guess was > that a tapecycle of 0 is a problem) but as long as you are using > tar rather than dump I've got a question. > > I've got a couple of large partitions that I'd like to move > from dump to tar, but only specific partitions within the > disklist and I don't know now to divide up the data ? Dividing > at highest level on the partition by username might work ok > (directories at that level named for the data owner) but I > don't really want to maintain the disklist (look to see if > it needs updating everytime I create/remove a user data area). > > Are you doing anything like this ? I'm in need of the feature > for both Solaris/IRIX servers/clients. > > What version of amanda are you running ? Or rather, what is the > min version that supports what I'm hoping to do ? > > thanks, > > Brian > >
