On 2017-11-07 13:19, Ned Danieley wrote:
On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 01:11:43PM -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:
On 2017-11-07 11:55, Ned Danieley wrote:
we use a dropbox business account to archive our data, and I was interested
in trying to use amvault to transfer my amanda backups there. however, it
seems that there is a fair amount of work that would have to be done to the
code base to make that happen, work that is probably beyond my ability.
are any plans to include dropbox access in future versions?
You can do this already without needing any new code. Just
configure a virtual tape library inside a Dropbox synced directory,
set that as a vaulting location, and recursively add the necessary
read permissions to the directory after each amvault run.
I guess that would work, although I'd have to set up selective sync so I
could remove the files locally without removing them from dropbox. thanks
for the suggestion; I'll give it a try.
OK, so you're talking about functionally permanent archiving instead of
keeping old stuff around for a fixed multiple of the dump cycle. If
that's the case, you may be better off pulling the dumps off the tapes
using amfetchdump, and then uploading them for there. That use case
could in theory be handled better with some extra code in Amanda, but I
don't know how well the lack of deletion would be handled on Amanda's side.
