AMVAULT will copy an Amanda backup from one media to another, and will tell Amanda about it too, so that she knows the data is on the new media. I used it to copy some LTO2 tapes to LTO5 tapes.
Deb Baddorf (from phone) > On Mar 25, 2016, at 9:12 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > >> On Friday 25 March 2016 07:28:36 Marcin Stolarek wrote: >> >> I’m using amanda with virtual tapes (storing backups on local disks of >> my server). Is it possible to move old backups to different storage, >> instead of removing them? >> >> >> Does amanda have a solution for backup of backups, to store them in >> case of backup server failure? I know that vtapes are created with >> standard Linux utilities and I can recover files from them even >> without amanda, so I can just copy tape files(probably with some >> snapshot), but it sounds like poor man solution. >> >> cheers, >> marcin > > This is one of the things that COULD be done easier with the help of my > scripts called GenesAmandaHelper, although I am not doing it. But it > would be relatively easy to schedule a backup, using amanda or some > such, of the complete backup sessions done in the number of backups you > have scheduled, so if, like me, you use 30 vtapes before one is recycled > by amanda, then that drive containing that 30 tapes could itself be > copied to permanent storage, off that machine and it would contain > EVERYTHING needed to recover. The way my scripts do it, all the indice > data, and all the configuration data that created them, is appended to > each backup, as separate files on the vtape. That way, a literal bare > metal recovery is as simple as a quick install, preferably with the > install image you were using when the failure took place, then install > amanda from that distro's repo's, then recover the indices and configs > from the newest vtape and put them where they go in the new image, call > up amrecover as root, and in an hour or so you will be looking at the > system as it existed, at say 2AM the morning before the failure when > amanda last ran. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> >
