On Saturday 07 December 2002 16:07, Niall O Broin wrote:
>On Saturday 07 December 2002 01:52, you wrote:
>> I'm doing that too.  But I should move that script to after the
>> backup is done, as the current way means they are a day older
>> than the tape.  Thanks for pointing that detail out Niall. 
>> Doing it your way means they'll only be a day out of date if I
>> have to pull them from the tape.
>
>No ! No ! - doing it the way I suggested (I hesitate to call it my
> way - sysadmins doing backup seriously have been doing something
> like that since forever) means not pulling it from tape at all,
> and having a current copy always available separate from the
> tape, and separate from the disk where the files normally live. I
> don't think you can ever really have an accurate copy of the
> index files on tape (*) because the files are being updated as
> each backup is made (or not, but then they're not much use to
> you). Best you can have on tape is a saved away copy of
> yesterday's indices.
>

I *thought* thats what I was saying.  And yes, after the backup is 
done for the night, I'm making a seperate tarball of both the 
config dir and the indices dir, and stashing those in a rotating 
manner in /home/amanda/amanda/config-bak, keeping the last 7 
'editions' of each.

The actual backup to tape is also done without indices *or* 
recording about half an hour after the main backup is done, so it 
should be up to date at that point & non-locked so its all there.

I did find that the disklist entries I had were defaulting to using 
gzip, and that I didn't seem to be able to recover those from the 
tape, so I've now reset those disklist entries like this:

coyote  /usr/local/etc/amanda {
root-tar
record no
index no
dumpcycle 0
starttime 0215
}
coyote /usr/local/var/amanda {
root-tar
record no
index no
dumpcycle 0
starttime 0216
}

root-tar does not compress in my amanda.conf.

amcheck doesn't complain, so we'll see tonight how well that works.

-- 
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