Any one ever set up a second system, probably one of the regular amanda clients, as a stand-by amanda server?
With the use of virtual tapes and external storage, either from USB drives or a file server, it would seem to be a fairly straight forward task. Here is the type of situation I'm envisioning. My server is on Fedora, using USB drives dedicated as my 64 vtapes. I have a client running SuSE. I may want to upgrade the Fedora system and shake things out for a week or so but not stop backups during that time. So, set up similar file system structures on the two boxes for the amanda config and the vtape mount points. Do an rsync command(s) to update the shadow directories on the client. Then move the disks from the server to the client and activate some crontab entries. Doable? Any gotcha's? Anyone care to share their experience doing it? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
