Am 27.11.19 um 21:22 schrieb Debra S Baddorf: > > >> On Nov 27, 2019, at 3:29 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <s...@amanda.org> wrote: >> >> There could also be a separate cronjob with "amdump --no-taper" when I >> think about it. >> >> I could run that during the day maybe. This would give me time to run >> another script find-ing the latest dump in the holdingdisk etc > > Actually, I like this idea a lot.
Thank you ;-) > Create a script like this > > amdump —no-taper > trigger synch process (or just copy to remote area) > > so that the sync happens immediately after the dump is finished. > Run script earlier in the day than normal backups, allowing enough time > for it to finish. > > Then, when the normal backup run is done, amanda will auto-magically > FLUSH that earlier run onto the vtape with the rest of them, and will then > delete it from the holding disk. > > Or, run it immediately after LAST NIGHT’s backup run. The dump > would sit in holding all day, and become part of the NEXT night’s normal > backup. Yes, exactly. I was busy with other things this week so I haven't yet found the time and/or the brain to work on this. A detail to solve is: the dump will look like # tree /mnt/amhold/vtape/ /mnt/amhold/vtape/ └── 20191129170354 ├── pre01svdeb02.ntcs-sql-latest.0 ├── pre01svdeb02.ntcs-sql-latest.0.1 └── pre01svdeb02.ntcs-sql-latest.0.2 ... the timestamp will change every day/run, so I need some find-command to find the latest file (there could be more than one sometimes) and then maybe setup a rotating symlink or so (I mean something like a prefix "sqldump-latest" or so). We talk about ~5GB here. Unfortunately this will be a completely new file each day (think "binary and compressed here"), so I expect rsync to transfer the whole file each time. This will take a few hours over that small DSL-line ... so this will have to happen during the night. But the rsync could be run at a completely different time. As there are vtapes in place ... it's even possible to run a specific "amflush -b" for that DLE after the sync. I will try that in the next days or so.