On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Luc Lalonde wrote:

> In case of backup server failure, I 'rsync' all my configuration files
> in /etc with the Amanda index files onto another server.   If my server
> crashes or becomes unavailable, I have instantaneaous access to my
> backup indices and configurations without mucking about and trying to
> find it on the backup tapes without an online Amanda setup.

We keep ours in our OpenAFS filesystem.  If our amanda server fails,
we stand up another, fire up cfengine on it to install it as an amanda
server, and off we go.

-Mitch

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