On Friday 28 January 2005 14:16, Michael Loftis wrote: >--On Friday, January 28, 2005 11:22 -0700 Mark Costlow > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote: >> The script is fairly generic (I tried not to let it depend on my >> local environment too much, but there may be some gotchas). I was >> also lazy about a couple of assumptions (like the fact that my >> dumps all used gtar). If anyone wants it, let me know. > >I'd love to have a copy of it...While we're right now using vtapes, > we'll be changing methods to a tape library soon, but I want to > keep offsite dumps as well...I think this would be easier than > doing them 'in' amanda. I know the script isn't exactly meant for > that but it's a starting point, and will save me coding time. > >Thanks!
As a suggestion to preserve the indices, it might be possible to use that level 0 name retrieved from the vtape, to reach into the indices directory and recover each of those indice files that go with it, and stuff it out to the media used for the long term storage too. This is something that would be possible if one were doing a seperate, appended to the tape, saving of both the config directory tree, and the indice directory tree as I am now doing with my wrapper scripts such that if I had to do a bare metal recovery to a fresh drive, the first thing I would do is re-install the os in bare bones mode, use dd, tar and gzip to recover the /home/amanda tree, reinstall amanda from that, then untar the config dir file and the indice dir file. At that point, all of amandas amrestore and amrecover stuff should be up and running, makeing an exact restore of the whole machine possible. If one were to select just the current indice file for that backups last level 0, it certainly seems like it could be made to work, how satisfactory remains to be seen. Negative Comments anybody? Here is my concern: Particularly from the standpoint that such a level 0 scenario only, it does have the potential to restore things out of sync if the last level 0 on /home was say 6 days old, and the /usr/local was last nights. That could be interesting on a machine with lots of volatile stuff, like the maildirs? Or a freshly installed program. Personally I think I'd be more interested in this train of thought if a days snapshot was more fully done, by getting the last level 0, and all subsequent higher levels of that DLE at the same time, and combining that into (as seperate files of course) the offsite storage medium chosen. That would no doubt add to its size, but at least it would be a valid 'snapshot' then. For a business doing such a thing for its accounts payable and accounts receivable, I'd think it would be of paramount importance. -- 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) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.