On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:06:47AM -0400, Guy Dallaire enlightened us: > I received great suggestions from people on this list. Thanks to all. > One of those suggestion involved using 3 or 4 "sets" of tapes to be > able to keep a copy of the backup "off site" > > For example, if I use 5 tapes per week and my dumpcylce is one week, I > could keep a set locally to do my backups on, another in a file > cabinet, another at a remote site. > > I will probably have more than 4 "sets" of tapes. > > My question is: > > If I use indexing, is it easy to be able to recover a specific > "version" of a faile ? Say, file "xyz" has been modified often and > exists on 5 different tapes, all at different dates, and I need to > restore files from a particular date (not the latest), is there an > utility in amanda that can show me all the "versions" of the file so I > can restore exactly the one I want ? >
Yes, by using the amrecover command. This gives you an FTP-like interface to your index files and allows for the commands: sethost setdisk setdate To specify exactly the files you want :-) > Also, is there a way in amanda to "erase" a tape, and remove it from > amanda's database inventory and amanda's index ? If, for example, I > have introduced a lot of new tapes in the rotation, and I need to > reduce it, can I do it ? > amrmtape > Is there a way to determine which tape is "out of date" and can be > safely "removed" from the rotation ? > > THANKS A LOT, AGAIN ! > Well, you can run "amadmin CONFIG find" on a single DLE to get an idea. You can also look in the tapelist file for the config which has a list of all the tapes and the date the tape was last written to. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
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