On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:36:34AM +0800, John Morris wrote: > Hi, > > We're doing our on-site backups using virtual tapes. Two hard drives > are dedicated to this. In an attempt to be clever, I set up two > configurations, DS2 and DS3, that back up the same filesystems, but > whose virtual tapes are on separate disks. The idea is that if we need > to restore, and one of the disks turns out to have a problem, that we'll > still have the other disk with a complete level 0 and incrementals. The > configurations run on alternating days. Does this make sense? > > My question is, is this actually a good idea? Will there be any > problems I haven't anticipated, such as the two configs conflicting? > For example, I notice that there is only one /etc/amandates file that is > presumably shared by both configurations. I don't know whether the date > to begin incrementals from is from this file or from > /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists. > > Thanks for any hints!
Many DLEs are entered as host <start_dir> ... However you may recall that the disklist syntax also includes a "DLE name" field: host name <start_dir> ... and if name is not provided, the <start_dir> is used as the name. I'm pretty sure amandates uses the name, not the start_dir. So you could supply uniqu DLE names in each config and there should be no conflict. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)