On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 01:01:28PM -0500, Joseph Cheng wrote: > I have been looking at mailing list archives but I am not sure if this is > possible or not..... please advise. > > 1. Specify only certain directories per host to be backed up. Not global > list of directories configured on server and then excludes on clients.
How about the "include" directive? If it works the same as the last time I used it, it effectively "excludes" anything not "included". > 2. From client use amrecover to fetch any host's last full, sucessful > backup in an automatted way without browsing with the ftp like client or > answering questions. All from vtape and no physical tape devices. > Example.... amrecover -h restorehost.domain.com DailySet1 /restore/path > amrestore might be more appropriate > #2 is critical in virtual machine envrionment. Old virtual machine is gone, > new one created, then automation tool runs the amrecover command to > download the last full backup for the virtual machine that is being > replaced. > > Is this possible? In my limited experience the vm server keeps the guest data in a single server file. Will you be backing up that single file as seen by the server or installing amanda on the guest and backing things up as a remote client sees them, many individual files in one or more filesystems? I can see potential problems with each approach. Whichever you decide upon, I'd recommend you practice recovery with several different guests before you actually need it. Jon
