Niall  O Broin wrote:

>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.
>
>
>


I capture the amanda configs on every tape. My backups start at 9pm and 
are done by the early morning.
So I set the disklist entry to back up the amanda dir at 6 am: 

warsaw /usr/local/etc/amanda {
 hwcomp
 program "GNUTAR"
 record no
 index no
 dumpcycle 0
 starttime 0600
} 


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