I use a separate config for Archives. I find it easy to maintain andSurely you don't need that, as long as the dumpcycle is correctly configured?
easy to think about. The disklist looks the same for both. And the
amanda.conf looks the same for both (with the exception of the config
name).
I do monthly archives. So I set up the amanda.conf for two years worth of tapes (24 tapes). When it's time for me to make an archive, I do the following:
- find a new tape and label it with amlabel
- force a full dump of all filesystems with "amadmin force" command
- run the amdumpBTW, I was thinking that a separate config might be a bit of a hassle as it isn't practically possible to run a normal dump *and* the archive one on the same day. Then it struck me that I might schedule the archival for the weekend, now that we have a tape changer...
- verify I can restore from the tape by grabbing random files and
directories off the archive and comparing them to what's on the
filesystem (for static files at least)
- Toralf