Re: amanda non interactive or automated restore/recover
Op wo 02jan08 om 21:02 schreef fedora: > Every end of month I have to recover databases to burn it into DVD. The > command that I used is amrecover. For amrecover I have to give an input so > that amanda can recover databases (interactive). It will be wasting my time > to recover one by one for the clients and I have to wait until all finished. > I have to setdate, sethost, setdisk and so on. Is there any specific amanda > commands that will run restore or recover when we call the function in > crontab automatically (non interactive)? Just my 2 cents. hostname.diskname.datestamp.dumplevel are the filenames made by the non-interactive form of the command amrestore to extract backup images from an Amanda tape (my 3rd and 4th cent) Gerrit
Re: amanda non interactive or automated restore/recover
fedora wrote: Hi guys, Every end of month I have to recover databases to burn it into DVD. The command that I used is amrecover. For amrecover I have to give an input so that amanda can recover databases (interactive). It will be wasting my time to recover one by one for the clients and I have to wait until all finished. I have to setdate, sethost, setdisk and so on. Is there any specific amanda commands that will run restore or recover when we call the function in crontab automatically (non interactive)? Just my 2 cents. If you need something that's typically interactive to run automatically and unattended, then Expect is often a good solution. I've used it to drive interactive menu systems to extract data from library catalogs using cron. The trick is that you have to know what to expect. As long as the interaction is consistent, and you can anticipate alternate results, you can script it. http://expect.nist.gov Been around a long time, and there's an O'Reilly book on it. --- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Erdös 4
Re: amanda non interactive or automated restore/recover
> If you need something that's typically interactive to run automatically > and unattended, then Expect is often a good solution. There is also a perl-Expect module; so you don't *have* to learn another scripting language, just wrap it up in perl. http://search.cpan.org/~rgiersig/Expect/ +--+ Michael Hurley Webmaster/System Administrator University of Connecticut School of Law +--+
