Chris Hoogendyk schrieb: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 21 March 2010, Steve Wray wrote: > Or, you can be a bit more preemptive. > > I have a script that runs after the Amanda backup is done and copies all > the Amanda home directory to another server. This includes all the > configuration and indexes. You can do this with just about any mechanism > you're comfortable with -- cpio, tar, scp, rsync, ... whatever. Each of > my Amanda servers sends everything over to another Amanda server. Sort > of a round robin. I use a script with a combination of find and cpio to > achieve a sequence of full and incremental backups that are kept for a > week.
Yes, that is something I do on our systems too, but only locally. In most cases we're using something like an MD1000 with virtual tapes, so in case the the server providing the OS goes down, we still have the parts of /etc/amanda and /var/lib/amanda on that external storage. We only have to set up a new server and rsync the "local_backup" data back from the storage. For very important systems I have a dedicated backupserver just for the amanda-stuff of the important servers. It already did save my day once :) /Michael -- Michael Müskens Rule #18: It's better to seek forgiveness than ask permission.
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