Re: Using Amanda to Backup Amanda
I use rsync to copy all the amanda folder to another server, just after amanda finishes her work. Regards, -- Inaki Sanchez Centro de Proceso de Datos Universidad de Navarra mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.unav.es Gaby Vanhegan wrote: Hi, I have a running Amanda server which is quite happily backing up several gigs of data on several machines (not a huge setup by any measure). I was wondering if there are any special provisions that I need, or disklist entries, to back up the Amanda server. I'd like to keep a backup of my index files, and the whole amanda folder. What's the best way to go about this? One thought I had was to tar up a copy of the folder after every run of Amanda and drop that in a location that is going to be backed up after the next run. Is this sensible, or should I just add the amanda folder to the disklist? Gaby
Re: Using Amanda to Backup Amanda
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 03:00, Inaki Sanchez wrote: I use rsync to copy all the amanda folder to another server, just after amanda finishes her work. Regards, And I use a wrapper script that tars up the $CONFDIR and $INDEXDIR and appends them to the backup. When I used tapes, I had to reduce the tapesize by about 400 megs to compensate, but with vtapes, I can just put them in that dir and go. Amanda isn't aware of them, doesn't even kill them, so my scripts have to rm -f them before writing the new ones. That way, if I have to recover, the first thing I'd go get from the latest backups vtape are those two files and the /home dir, at which point I've restored everything amanda needs to do a bare metal recovery of everything once I've gone into the /home/amanda/current_version_build directory and have run a make install again. Humm, I should switch the /home dir to always-full just to cover that. -- Inaki Sanchez Centro de Proceso de Datos Universidad de Navarra mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.unav.es Gaby Vanhegan wrote: Hi, I have a running Amanda server which is quite happily backing up several gigs of data on several machines (not a huge setup by any measure). I was wondering if there are any special provisions that I need, or disklist entries, to back up the Amanda server. I'd like to keep a backup of my index files, and the whole amanda folder. What's the best way to go about this? One thought I had was to tar up a copy of the folder after every run of Amanda and drop that in a location that is going to be backed up after the next run. Is this sensible, or should I just add the amanda folder to the disklist? Gaby -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.28% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
Re: Using Amanda to Backup Amanda
Hi, Gaby Vanhegan, on Montag, 08. November 2004 at 17:40 you wrote to amanda-users: GV Hi, GV I have a running Amanda server which is quite happily backing up several GV gigs of data on several machines (not a huge setup by any measure). I GV was wondering if there are any special provisions that I need, or GV disklist entries, to back up the Amanda server. GV I'd like to keep a backup of my index files, and the whole amanda GV folder. What's the best way to go about this? GV One thought I had was to tar up a copy of the folder after every run of GV Amanda and drop that in a location that is going to be backed up after GV the next run. Is this sensible, or should I just add the amanda folder GV to the disklist? There is a project called ADR - Amanda Disaster Recovery which was once started to provide all the necessary infos one needs to rebuild the AMANDA-server quickly (indexes and stuff). This project fell asleep long ago, it never developed more than one small shell-script ... http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/adr/adr/adr_backup.sh I once modified and extended a script called frankenbackup.sh to build up a first draft. This script is able to pack several infos into a time-stamped archive which you can then mail/rsync/ftp/scp/whatever. Currently the projectpages of ADR don't work very well, I plan to do some work on this soon, as I will take over maintenance of ADR soon (the current maintainer plans to hand things over to me). Please see the mentioned script and let me know your thoughts. -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Skip two tapes
Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: For some reason, I have to skip two tapes : the last backup was made on tape05 and the next one has to be made on tape08 Tell amanda exactly that: amadmin config no-reuse tape06 tape07 And when someday you want to use them again, just `reuse' them. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29
Re: Skip two tapes
On Monday November 08 2004 11:41 pm, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote: Hi, I have a configuration with ten tapes that runs nicely. For some reason, I have to skip two tapes : the last backup was made on tape05 and the next one has to be made on tape08 How can I do that ? What file should I hack for that ? You can use 'admadim config no-reuse tape' to temporarily remove them. Later, when you're ready to reuse them, 'amadmin config reusetape' . It can be a little tricky getting them back into the rotation in order tho :-) -- Stephen Carville http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt -- Fascism: When Socialism gets down to business.
