On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:49:19PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 24 March 2017 11:51:27 Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > I'd assume that if I suffered a disk failure, replaced the disk, > > re-installed Jessie and tried to use Amanda to restore my backups of > > my stuff, I'd be hosed right now because my current /etc/amanda and > > its subdirectories would be gone. Is this correct? Amanda would not be > > able to recover in this situation, right? > > > Correct. This is why I use a different disk for amanda backup files, and > I wrote a script to wrap the amanda run so that when amanda is done, > this script appends the complete amanda configuration, and its database, > to the end of that backup. This has the added advantage of being able to > do a recovery to the state of the last backup run, instead of the day > before because the on disk amanda stuff, as recorded in the backup, is a > run old. Its hand work to do an install on a new system disk, but then I > can unpack that stuff from the "amanda" disk to install amanda's config > and database. From that point its amrecover run time and when done I > have a system exactly the same a it existed at 01:40 or so in the > morning. >
Right makes sense. But Hmmm.. "...and database...". Database? would that be /var/lib/amanda, or something else? So I'm concerned with /etc/amanda and below, and /var/lib/amanda and below, right? > > What is the _right_ way to do this? And, if I were using Amanda as its > > creators obviously intended and backing up multiple machines, what > > would the recommended way to back up the Amanda server itself (ie its > > configuration and current state) be? > > Poke around on my site in the sig and get the GenesAmandaHelper stuff, > install it in a subdir of the same name, and change your cron job to run > backup.sh that you will find in this subdir when its unpacked. You may > have to edit something, and play with the onwer:group settings etc to > get it to run, possibly even a configuration change but the idea is > there. > Nice one, thanks -- I will check this out! > > I know there are some long-standing users of Amanda on here so I'm > > hoping someone can help me figure out what I am missing... > > Does since 1999 count? ;-) > It does indeed -- in fact it was you, Gene, that I was hoping would respond to this question! :) I almost mailed you directly, since the question was a touch OT for the list, but thought that might be a bit presumptious. Thanks for your help! Mark