[I'm CCing amanda-hackers because the answer to my question might depend heavily on Amanda internals; but the discussion doesn't belong there, so please reply to amanda-users.]
I want to make two identical copies of an Amanda backup. This is a one-off thing -- archival backups of a client that's about to be wiped clean and repurposed. If it were an ongoing need, I'd ask for budget for a second tape drive and learn about rait. I have enough holding-disk space to hold all of the client's DLEs at once, so what I'm thinking is this: 1. Build a new Amanda configuration that backs up only the client in question (reserve=0; also record=no to be on the safe side) 2. Run the configuration with no tape in the drive, forcing all the (full) backups to holding disk 3. Hard-link the holding-disk files to another directory that Amanda doesn't know about 4. Run amflush 5. Hard-link the holding-disk files back to the Amanda spool directory (it's pure paranoia that I choose not to mv them instead and thus dispense with step 7) 6. Run amflush again 7. Delete the holding-disk files from the other directory Does this look like a reasonable approach? My main worry is that the curinfo database and multiple amflush's of the same data won't get along with each other. Is that likely to be a problem? -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / It must be said that they would have sounded better if the singer wouldn't throw his fellow band members to the ground and toss the drum kit around during songs. - Patrick Lenneau