permanent archives, client notification and subdirs
Hi, I have just got Amanda set up on a server at client machine. Can anyone help me out with a few questions 1) How do I go about creating a permanent archive of tapes? I actually want to dump newly created files to tape each at dump via amanda (i.e no incrementals, always fulldumps). I tried setting the following params, but I'm not sure this if this is right dumpcycle 0 tapecycle 9 # lots of tapes in the tapecycle... 2) I also want to remove the client files from disk automatically after they've been archived. However, I'm just not sure how to determine if a given set of files/filesystem has been archived from a client machine. Any clues on how to do this? 3) Is there a way of dumping subdirectories to disk, rather than just whole filesystems? Thanks in advance, Justin.
Re: permanent archives, client notification and subdirs
On Thu, 10 May 2001 at 6:30am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 1) How do I go about creating a permanent archive of tapes? I actually want to dump newly created files to tape each at dump via amanda (i.e no incrementals, always fulldumps). I tried setting the following params, but I'm not sure this if this is right dumpcycle 0 tapecycle 9 # lots of tapes in the tapecycle... Yep, that'll work. 2) I also want to remove the client files from disk automatically after they've been archived. However, I'm just not sure how to determine if a given set of files/filesystem has been archived from a client machine. Any clues on how to do this? I'm really not sure what you're trying to accomplish here. If you *really* want to delete everything you back up, you could have your backup script run amanda and then, iff amanda exits normally, parse the disklist and 'rm -rf' one directory below each disklist entry. I *STRONGLY* recommend against this. Automated rm is a Bad Idea (TM). Leave the data there, or remove it by hand. 3) Is there a way of dumping subdirectories to disk, rather than just whole filesystems? Use GNUtar rather than dump. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
Re: permanent archives, client notification and subdirs
2) I also want to remove the client files from disk automatically after they've been archived. ... I agree with the comments from Joshua Baker-LePain that automatically doing this is probably dangerous. One thought about how to do it (but not any safer) would be to get a catalogue of the dump image from tape after amdump/amflush and then remove the items it said it found. This is especially unsafe when using dump because a catalogue (restore with the 't' option) does not really read the whole image, but if you use GNU tar and it successfully reads the whole image, you can be reasonably certain the data is really there. Depending on what the data is, I'd want to clone the tape (and verify the clone) so I had at least two copies, though. Justin. John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
