On Tuesday 09 November 2004 03:00, Inaki Sanchez wrote: >I use rsync to copy all the amanda folder to another server, just > after amanda finishes her work. > >Regards, > And I use a wrapper script that tars up the $CONFDIR and $INDEXDIR and appends them to the backup. When I used tapes, I had to reduce the tapesize by about 400 megs to compensate, but with vtapes, I can just put them in that dir and go. Amanda isn't aware of them, doesn't even kill them, so my scripts have to rm -f them before writing the new ones.
That way, if I have to recover, the first thing I'd go get from the latest backups vtape are those two files and the /home dir, at which point I've restored everything amanda needs to do a bare metal recovery of everything once I've gone into the /home/amanda/current_version_build directory and have run a make install again. Humm, I should switch the /home dir to always-full just to cover that. >-- >Inaki Sanchez >Centro de Proceso de Datos >Universidad de Navarra > >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.unav.es > >Gaby Vanhegan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a running Amanda server which is quite happily backing up >> several gigs of data on several machines (not a huge setup by any >> measure). I was wondering if there are any special provisions >> that I need, or disklist entries, to back up the Amanda server. >> >> I'd like to keep a backup of my index files, and the whole amanda >> folder. What's the best way to go about this? >> >> One thought I had was to tar up a copy of the folder after every >> run of Amanda and drop that in a location that is going to be >> backed up after the next run. Is this sensible, or should I just >> add the amanda folder to the disklist? >> >> Gaby -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.28% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.