On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 at 5:41pm, Bgs wrote
I'd like to as some experienced Amanda user what approach would be best for
us (or is amanda the best solution for this at all...)
We do archiving and not classic share backups. That is we assemble some raw
material from time to time and archive it to tape. They always have new file,
no file change involved. Consequently we do not erase and rotate tapes
either.
On the source side, a source directory with date named directories looks to
be a good solution, but how should I set up the tape part?
Just setup a config with 'dumpcycle 0', 'runspercycle 1', and a very large
tapecycle. That will force amanda to do full dumps every amdump and never
recycle tapes. For the source directory, you could re-use the same DLE
every time. Or, what I do for my 'archive random bits' config, add a DLE
(or DLEs), amdump it/them, and then comment out those DLEs. That way your
disklist contains a record of everything you've archvied with that config.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
