On Thursday 05 December 2002 17:22, Mark Stosberg wrote:

> I'm curious how some you have dealt with the catch-22 of backing up
> Amanda's configuration files. Ideally during the restore process Amanda
> is available with all it's configuration files intact. However, if the
> Amanda server needs to be restored, you can't restore them in the usual
> Amanda way, because the config files to do so would be on a backup
> tape...

This is a FFAQ (Fairly Frequently . . . .) - the sensible thing to do is to 
copy the amanda config files to a physically different disk, and preferrrably 
even to a different computer, even offsite if you want to be really paranoid.



Kindest regards,



Niall  O Broin