I have a cron job that runs twice a week to tar up the entire amanda directory 
to a separate filesystem.  That gets backed up every night.  If I need to 
recover, I can extract the files from that tarball if the filesystem is still 
ok or extract the tarball from tape.


> create a cron job that looks like this:
> 
> -----------------------
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> /bin/cat /etc/amanda/backup-dir/backup-conf | mail -s "Daily Backup
> Conf" your_email_address
> 
> -----------------------
> 
> You could do this for as many of the config files that you want to keep.
> I email my config files to myself monthly.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 12:22, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > 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...
> > 
> > How of others of you worked around this?
> > 
> >   -mark
> > 
> > http://mark.stosberg.com/
> -- 
> Richard B. Tilley (Brad), System Administrator & Web Developer
> Virginia Tech, Office of the University Bursar
> Phone: 540.231.6277
> Fax: 540.231.3238
> Page: 557.0891
> Web: http://www.bursar.vt.edu
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