On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:39:56AM -0500, Vicki Stanfield wrote: > I have set up an alternate amanda.conf to run with two tape drives > instead of the one that I currently have. I am wondering whether there > is some way to rerun an incremental backup if I run it and something in > my new configuration is out of whack. Since there is stateful data > involved which presumably would not be available after the backup ran, > is there a way to get it back so that problem could be corrected and the > backup rerun?
In trying to think of potential problems, I don't really come up with any which would cause amanda to think it has had a successful run when it failed unless some component was "lying" about its success; e.g. a tape system saying it was accepting the data when the tape was sitting there broken and spinning. So I don't think the stateful data would reflect a false situation. Maybe you or someone else would think of other scenarios than I've come up with. Although amdump, which starts a backup, is normally run from a cron job, there is no reason why you can't start it manually if the cron job fails. jl -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)