On Thursday 05 December 2002 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

I haven't managed to do that yet myself, as I, like you, found there 
were none-nada-zip-zero of amanda's configs and indexes actually on 
the last dumpcycle tapes.

That seems to be a local puzzle because I was immediately told that 
this absolutely can't happen, but it did.  And yes, I consider that 
to be a huge bug, to be investigated when the new install is 
running stably.

So I just re-installed and reconfigured it all from scratch.  And 
I've shortened dumpcycle to 5 days & might go down to 4 even.  One 
of these first days I'm going to get down the last dumpcycle days 
worth of tapes and see if they are on the tapes now.  If not, 
bummer.  Amanda is essentially just a drive abuser when the indices 
and such aren't on the tapes.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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